Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against such odds there was doubt whether even popular Governor Horner could win. But excitement was high because more hung on the primary than the fate of Horner and the Kelly machine. Two more big pins in the cat's cradle of Illinois politics are Colonel Knox, publisher of Chicago's Daily News and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of Chicago's Tribune. Both men and both sheets are Republican. Both are interested in the gubernatorial fights in both parties. Both are at swords' points on all points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under...
...Court of Errors & Appeals had unanimously affirmed Hauptmann's death sentence, Governor Hoffman, a Republican, secretly visited the condemned man's cell, talked with him for more than an hour. Shortly thereafter the squat, hard-driving Governor sensationally re-opened the quiescent Hauptmann Case by publicly expressing doubt of the German carpenter's sole guilt, announcing that he had launched an independent investigation of the crime under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a non-Hoffman Republican holdover, with having bungled the original investigation...
Adolf Hitler was reasonably happy last week. Behind him was a Germany so united on paper as to leave no outside doubt that he was its one & only master. Before him was a ring of sovereign powers who could not make up their common mind what to do about this fuzzy-lipped little man who had just spat in their respective faces...
...Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag, another a man and woman cowering before a serpent, no doubt a local variant of the Adam & Eve story. A seal found on Level Eleven depicted two men stirring a vat with long poles; the diggers took it to be the earliest known representation of a brewery...
...means of consolidating the peace of the Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized for the devaluated dollar, by giving that much-abused republic the benefit of the doubt on the exchange in respect to the canal tolls...