Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of Admiral Gary T. Grayson last year, she was urged to fill his position as national chairman. She had declined many times before, declined again. Her reason: "If there ever arises any doubt about the conduct of the Red Cross or its finances, investigators might be inclined to go easy with a woman. A man would have to accept a merciless inquiry.'' Norman H. Davis accepted the post, and Mabel Boardman remained secretary...
...vote liquor out. Liquor came in again almost 15 years later, but the W.C.T.U. was only momentarily daunted. Meeting in annual convention in Rochester, N. Y., last week, during World War II, 1,700 temperate Christian delegates heard President Ida B. Wise Smith proclaim that "there is no doubt prohibition will return-the only question is when." The W.C.T.U. wants prohibition or nothing. Says Mrs. Ella Boole, world president of W.C.T.U.: "Moderation points the way to excessive indulgence. Total abstinence closes the door. We have always been opposed to moderation...
Nothing in the physical structure of industry, in the inventive genius of the U. S., in its plant capacity, in its ordinary workaday life, could account for a sense of hopelessness or weakness in facing it. There remained the unemployed, the ramifications of the problem they presented, doubt as to whether they could be put to work. But in ten years of depression, the U. S. had demonstrated that it possessed, as a natural resource more valuable than its mines...
Enough Flexibility. Although no two experts could wholly agree on detailed programs, no observer could doubt that ten years of depression had given the U. S. the greatest sociological education in its history. Incorporated into its Government were basic social laws no one of which could have been calmly argued or dreamed of by the dejected empiricists of 1929. Incorporated into its thought was an acceptance of social reform, no matter how hotly disputed were particular reform measures. Accepted by its major parties were the basic evolutionary changes represented by social security laws, trade union legislation, relief, social welfare-although...
Viva Il Re! If Italy loses her fight to remain neutral, what side will she join in war? The Fascist regime's prestige was staked on the German alliance, and every doubt about that alliance indicates that the regime is slipping. Those with ears to the ground in Italy (and Signor Mussolini is one of them) know that the Italian people have always disliked the German alliance. There are more than 1,000,000 Italian World War veterans who fought against Germany. Throughout Italy there are monuments to the Italian dead of World War I. After more than...