Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portent of that was Bull Connor's own statement, when he first became commissioner back in the '30's, that he favored Negro police on the force. The idea, no doubt, was to relieve whites of the task of looking after Negroes. The cops themselves were adamantly opposed. As late as October, 1963, five months after Birmingham's voters ousted the three-man city commission and replaced it with a racially moderate mayor and city council, and one month to the day after the Birmingham church bombing, the Fraternal Order of Police issued a statement asserting that hiring Negro policemen...
...Without doubt, in some cases, candidates who had friends in the Society had an advantage over those who did not, but only because those friends could inform the Society of candidates' academic and intgellectual activities that escaped the transcripts and faculty comments. The solution to this problem is fuller information on all candidates, not abdication to a mindless formula...
...without doubt, Phi Beta Kappa simply makes mistakes in trying to select the 90 intellectually most powerful members of a class in which six or seven hundred graduate with honors. No one claims PBK is infallible. But neither, fortunately, is it as significant as Mr. Chester inclines to believe. If Mr. Chester is on the losing end of one of PBK's mistakes, let him take consolation in knowing that membership in PBK neither bestows nor rewards greatness. Joel E. Cohen...
...have been found guilty, but then on the other hand, it is possible that it might have proved to be a clear case of accident. The charge has not been sufficiently proved against the accused so as to enable me to find that he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. While the accused must therefore carry with him the suspicion that he may have been responsible for his wife's death, he must, in justice, be acquitted and set free...
Looking back, there is not much doubt that New York City's Board of Education should have built its new In termediate School 201 somewhere else than right in the middle of darkest East Harlem. The Supreme Court ruled twelve years ago that segregated education is inferior education, and I.S. 201 never had any real possibility of being integrated. But there the school is-the city's finest, an architectural gem and potentially an academic joy. Common sense might seem to suggest accepting this separate-but-better education. Instead, many parents of I.S. 201 schoolchildren decided...