Word: doubting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Portugal has a standing army of less than 30,000 men and 600 light machine-guns on a single order was obviously ridiculous. Dictator Salazar's Portugal is now an unofficial ally of Generalissimo Franco's Rightist Spain. So there was no reasonable doubt whither the 600 machine guns were destined...
...doubt it is partly the glitter of its memorable predecessors that dulls this version of MGM's big annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing...
...Teachers College pedagogs, who showed instant enthusiasm for his songs and will no doubt plug them tirelessly this winter, Mr. Caesar said: "Maybe these songs of safety will get me to Heaven when my hi-de-ho songs would be sure to send me to a hotter region...
That Leader Alben Barkley, to whose desk John Nance Garner walked directly from his chair after the recess, had told the Vice President to get the Court Bill through the Senate, his confreres did not doubt last week. Even less did they doubt that the sensational maneuver by which it had been accomplished was a single-handed display of the Garner political acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner...
Whatever the cause may be, the facts demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt the worthlessness of an agreement if the procedure created to stop strikes is ignored and wildcat or unauthorized strikes result. It cannot be said that so far the United Automobile Workers of America have proven themselves to be a responsible body, with ability to live up to their contractual obligations. Manifestly, neither industry in general, nor General Motors in particular, can be expected to long tolerate such a complete disregard of its own rights...