Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short time ago, the young M. P. privately questioned Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha about a deficiency of antiaircraft defenses. The War Secretary denied the charge, expressed doubt as to the accuracy of Mr. Sandys' information. Thereupon Sandys drew up a formal question to be asked in the House, as a courtesy submitted the question and his information to the little War Secretary in advance. Shocked was Mr. Hore-Belisha to find that the "information" had come from a secret document drawn up by a top-rank Air officer, which contained emergency directions showing the exact...
Back in Washington, he hurried away from the annual dinner tendered him by the "Little Cabinet" (assistant and undersecretaries) at the sumptuous country house of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, to address the People once again. When he had finished, no one could doubt that Franklin Roosevelt's immediate objectives now are these...
There has never been much doubt about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...
...quadruplets died on the third day. But no one may ever doubt that the four actually existed. For exhibited in Liverpool last week was a 20-minute film of their birth, in color...
...first convention, in St. Paul in 1934. The delegates realistically conceived the reporter as a creature of wages, hours and working conditions, bluntly declared that they wanted more, fewer and better, respectively. By the time its fifth annual convention met last week in Toronto,* the Guild was beyond all doubt a labor union. More than that: It was one of the most successful of the C.I.O.'s affiliates (to Chairman John L. Lewis, its record was "magnificent"); its struggle first for existence, then for recognition had become a fight for better contracts; it had become an innovator in union...