Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Marshall protested that he needed more time, that he wanted to be sure no injustice was done. Said the committeemen: if there is any doubt at all, the employee should be fired. "It is not necessary to prosecute," insisted Committee Chairman Styles Bridges. "But get them out of the key spots in this Government. That is what we want...
...that ten State Department Civil Service employees had been fired for security reasons-"in the interest of the U.S." This week State, War and Navy Departments and the Atomic Energy Commission asked Congress for permanent authority to fire any employee "in the interest of national security." Congress would no doubt grant it. But the Senators still needed convincing. The most they would give George Marshall for his OIC was an extra...
There is little doubt now about the provocation. The Crimson oarsmen rowed the Seattle course in the fastest time ever recorded for the 2000-meter distance. Time, incidentally, is usually an unreliable factor in judging the worth of various crews; but such is the case when weather, tide, and current conditions can slow down or speed up the best or worst of crews. Last Saturday the Varsity won without benefit of tail-current, most often present when records are made, and nevertheless cracked the Yale time on the Schuykill River...
...This is a poor return for the amount of information about the U.S. disclosed daily in its free press, but it means even less to the average Russian reader. In general, he may doubt the word of his lesser newspapers, but when Pravda or Tass (the news agency) speaks, he feels that he is listening to the voice of his Government and is inclined to believe. There are exceptions, of course. I once asked a Russian acquaintance what he thought about a Tass account of a U.S. Negro youth congress which condemned lynchings and the activities of certain U.S. Senators...
...Harry S. Truman turns the alternatives over in his mind, election consideration without doubt will play an abnormally large part in the decision. Labor, in danger of losing the legal rights accumulated in the last fourteen years, has played this argument for all it is worth. Though Truman may not get a second term, even with labor's support, his party will have little chance murmuring a faint echo of the Republican song. But to come out strongly is to run a great political risk in a country that gives strong indications that it wants to return to the decepive...