Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfectly proper thing that the Catholic Club has done, and that the Crimson editorial is at best foolish, and perhaps malicious. If the Liberal Union, for instance, had seen fit to notify its members who "their" candidate was, would the Crimson have been so quick to cry, "Shame"? I doubt...
...Doubt, did I say? There is no need for doubt. A member and former officer of the Liberal Union informs me that there are two members of that organization on the ballot. Anyone who attended the meeting which selected them knows who they are, and most members would recognize them as fellow members anyway, he reports. He told me that he saw nothing reprehensible in the Catholic Club's postcard...
...Dewey has made, and about his FEPC bill and things like that. I know they get pretty annoyed at some of Dewey's tactics." Said Michigan's Congressman Roy Woodruff: "Arthur Vandenberg is the kind of man the nation needs." Despite these differences, there was little doubt that a big percentage of the committeemen thought Tom Dewey was their boy.* No committeeman, Tom Dewey was not at the dinner; he was returning from a four weeks' vacation at Sea Island, and Miami, where he wrenched his shoul der playing golf...
...public affairs, Charles Taft came to the Council presidency without the theological background characteristic of his 13 predecessors. Knowing delegates saw his election as presaging a new era of lay leadership and political activity for U.S. Protestantism. In his vigorous statement on taking office, Layman Taft left no doubt as to his policies. Said...
...films, the last thing in the world I would ask of them is that they should all be socially significant. They would be a colossal bore if they were. One can, however, reasonably ask that they should . . . reflect something of the reality of our time. ... I doubt if the individual destiny is quite so important and the public destiny quite so unimportant as Hollywood would make them appear...