Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While four British engineers protested in Soviet jails (see above), no protest was heard last week from 35 Soviet officials jailed at the same time on charges of sabotage. All were dead. Of the guilt of 34 there would have been some doubt in any but a Soviet Ogpu court. But on one, Vice Commissar for Agriculture Feodor M. Konar, Soviet justice was willing to go before the world...
...well as shouts "Get that man" etc. Inasmuch as there were some 25,000 people in the crowd, including the usual percentage of women and children, it required some rather fast thinking to decide whether or not to proceed with the broadcast and create a panic, which no doubt would have resulted in accidents and deaths as the result of a stampede, or whether to take some steps to quiet the crowd, as there was no way to cut the public address system off from the point where our broadcaster was picking it up; he tried to quiet the crowd...
Yesterday the beer problem was in little doubt; today with the final tabulation of the CRIMSON poll, the last flecks of confusion are dispelled. It is shown that most of the voters are beer drinkers, and that an even greater number favour the introduction of the golden beverage into the dining halls. The answers to the other questions indicate, in general, little beside a coyly wayward tendency to annoy waitresses, and an astounding ability to vanish under the table on slight provocation...
From the moment President Roosevelt called for a copy of the Democratic platform, clipped out its beer plank, signed his name to it and sent it to Congress as a special message, there never was any serious doubt about the quick return of beer. Inescapable was the necessity for new revenue to help balance the Budget. Estimate of the Government's first year's income...
...means that depositors will have to pocket losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. In liquidation National Banks average only about 67% payment to depositors, state banks considerably less. Furthermore while the Federal authorities appear to have been fairly rigorous in weeding out weak banks, there are no doubt cases of nonmember state banks opened by local authorities who for political reasons were more lenient than they should have been...