Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been an end not only of Candidate Lowden but of his program. But the Administration, in the person of Secretary Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...
...true, they are so for these affairs. The season, the audience, the location all contribute to the excellence of the performances; tradition lends its approval; and the participants never fail to co-operate with programs of musical worth and appeal. No one who has attended a Yard Concert will doubt that the audience is enthusiastic and genuinely appreciative...
...Slocum admires the study required to earn membership in the society, but maintains that it does not promise leadership in business. This is no doubt very fine. An exceptional mind is not necessary to high executive positions. The point of the whole controversy seems to be that unusual mental power is one though only one of several factors of primary importance in business success. Personality and the ability to win over the confidence of others are equally essential but nevertheless the Phi Beta Kappa man has proven that he has one at least of these necessary qualifications. The Daily Princetonian
First: Its chairman is without doubt the best known Board Chairman in the U. S. Had a U. S. man-in-the-Street been called upon a year ago to name the chairman of any great U. S. corporation, he would most probably have snapped back "Gary?U. S. Steel." This year, not quite so quickly, he would name "Owen D. Young?General Electric...
...willing to leav the rock bottom of daily life for an excursion among the clouds. For such a one at such a time "Love and the Ladies." All that is necessary is that one surrender himself to Mrs. Abbott's imagination and timid, flowing style, and he will without doubt spend a few most delicious and restful hours