Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associate Professor John Ciardi was the only speaker not drawn from the Law School faculty, which could not produce a Wallace supporter. He expressed doubt whether he "had been summoned as a sacrificial lamb or as a prophet," but said he would assume the latter. His statement of the Progressive theory was based on the grounds that "society is essentially a process of getting something for nothing...
...speech in Philadelphia. For the first time, Truman plunged boldly into foreign policy. Said he: "Unity . . . cannot be produced by mealy-mouthed political speeches. Unity on great issues comes only when the voice of the people has been heard so clearly, so strongly, so unmistakably that no one . . . can doubt what the people mean . . . We did not have unity in foreign policy in 1940 . . . The Republican leaders were mainly isolationists...
...have loved: for 2,400 guests, 2,400 bottles of champagne, and, to soften the glitter of the great marble halls, ?1,400 worth of flowers. The London Evening Standard glowed: "Diamonds, champagne, beautiful women in lovely gowns, men wearing dazzling displays of honors and medals. There is no doubt that last night's party was the most generous since...
...nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among us, the soldier who becomes an educator . . . enters no foreign field . . ." Eisenhower was going to see to it, he said, that Columbia remained a bastion of freedom: "Only by education in the apparently obvious [fundamentals of freedom] can doubt and fear be resolved . . . There will be no administrative suppression or distortion...
...that there's room for doubt...