Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jest on the disparity of straw votes (TIME, Aug. 3). Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt and Ruin. Other cartoonists consider Carey Orr an exponent of "brute force, which gets reaction not converts." Nevertheless Publisher McCormick continues to play his product day after day on the front page...
...Pittsburgh last week New York's Republican-Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced himself for Franklin Roosevelt "without reserve." In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's Uncle Dan, a Minnesota farm paper editor, declared that New Deal agricultural policies filled him with "doubt and fear," said he would vote for Landon...
...there were any doubt about all this, the British Embassy might have set right the Episcopal Bishop of Colorado, the Right Reverend Irving Peake Johnson, D. C., who warmly declared: "The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York stand for the sanctity of the home against the power of the King. They were placed in a position in which they had to choose between their conscience and expediency. It is to their credit that they had the courage to witness to our Lord's command...
...action of leadership in requesting spectators at Princeton contests to abstain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending these games will no doubt be open to much horrified criticism. It is a delicate subject at best, which college presidents have been too prone to approach from the aspect that "this matter presents no problem for us". Such whistling in the dark, however, seems decidedly off key when one is treated to the spectacle of any college football stadium after the game...
With Fascist forces but eighteen miles from Madrid, any lingering doubt concerning their eventual victory must be dismissed. Undoubtedly it is significant in a military sense, but to thoughtful Americans it is little more, for the problems in regard to land tenure, the Church, political rights and similar matters have not been, and now cannot be settled by reasonable compromise...