Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apposition to give assurance that the proposed act will withstand Constitutional tests, for the simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly fashion, the ultimate question of Constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful as indicating, with increasing clarity, the Constitutional limits within which this Government 'must operate. ... I hope your...
...Most important of all was the public announcement of the President's intention to have his labor bills passed no matter how "reasonable"' might be the doubt of their Constitutionality. There is such doubt about the Labor Disputes Bill. There is a lot more doubt about the Guffey Coal Bill which, in fact, amounts to NRA's Soft Coal Code being re-enacted into law although the Supreme Court ruled that, and all other codes, unconstitutional. Attorney General Cummings refused to furnish the Ways & Means Committee with a brief for its Constitutionality and, according to Washington talk...
...first time in my life I am afraid. We are living in precarious times. You know the situation in Europe as far as Jews are concerned; but I doubt if many of you know how close to the same situation we are in America...
...Father Coughlin is a great orator but I doubt that he has a sincere atom in his entire system. We Jews have nothing to fear from good Christians. We are their brothers and sisters. But I am afraid of people who pretend to be good Christians. You must unite to protect yourselves...
...most likely to creep into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story. Sanders of the River, consequently, is full of native war dances, canoe-paddling, realistic spear-shaking and drum-beating which, no doubt interesting in a travelog, have no place in this narrative. It is distinguished by Michael Spolianski's curious but usually effective musical score, by Paul Robeson's vocalizations of lyrics which sound alarmingly like U.S. college football songs, and by Negro acting which is no less genuine because most...