Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill case has developed into the British case. It is now a question of whether proven criminals are to continue to be tolerated in such a high official position or whether the indignation of the world is stronger than the unscrupulousness of a notorious British liar. There is no doubt, Mr. Churchill, that you will be found guilty by any court of justice-now you are standing before the judgment chair of a world tribunal. The accused, Winston Churchill, now has the floor. . . . Stand, rascal, and answer...
...retired from command of the China fleet and came home in August to get from Franklin Roosevelt a Distinguished Service Medal for keeping the Japanese in line so far as U. S. nationals were concerned, he kept the fireball rolling. "If the Japanese plans succeed," the Admiral warned, "I doubt very much whether there will be any business for Americans in China." The Ambassador's slap, which was no less stinging for being deft, not only reminded the Japanese that they had been slapped before, but made them realize as never before that the U. S. State Department...
Goring. "I think there can be no doubt that Field Marshal Goring himself would have preferred a peaceful solution, but in matters such as these it was Herr Hitler's decision which alone counted; and whatever Field Marshal Goring himself might feel, he was merely the loyal and submissive servant of his master. Moreover, he had come down definitely on the side of Peace a year before and it may have been difficult for him to adopt this course a second time. He invited me, however, to come and see him that (Aug. 30) afternoon...
...economics of milk is a problem that has gone so long unsolved that many people doubt whether it can ever be solved. FORTUNE recently set its staff to the job of examining this unpromising problem and this week in its November issue comes to the conclusion that there is a solution, in fact that there is no good reason why farmers should get as little as 3? a quart for milk, or the public should have...
...lank figure with a stove-pipe hat has been doing an inordinate amount of stalking through the American scene of late. In our time, when democratic theories are coming in for more than their share of doubt, Abraham Lincoln, hero of democracy par excellence, has become an important symbol at the expense of the man himself. Great eulogies and great debunkings have been poured over his faded memory, rearing him into some abstract, semi-divine legend. In the play, "Abo Lincoln in Illinois," two men--Robert Sherwood, playwright, and Raymond Massey, actor--have striven to bring him back to life...