Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also effective last week in scoring Ramsay MacDonald's tour of Europe in behalf of peace and the Mussolini Four-Power Pact (TIME. March 27). Said Winston Churchill: "We have got our modern Don Quixote home again, with Sancho Panza at his tail, bearing with them these somewhat dubious trophies which they have collected amidst the nervous tittering of Europe...
Promising his party and city that he would not be a candidate in any special election, Acting Mayor Corr said he would adhere strictly to the Cermak policies of "economy, retrenchment and good government." Then he sat back to wait for the Legislature to confirm his dubious powers. With its employes still going unpaid, Chicago's most urgent need is for cash. Until the Legislature acts, Acting Mayor Corr's signature on $40,000,000 worth of tax anticipation warrants is worthless...
...there are larger issues at stake than an alarm with such dubious premises. The cooperation of the Soviet Government in the Pacific Basin is becoming imperative if the Stimson doctrine on Manchuria is to be given substance. To the preservation of the territorial integrity of China we are unequivocally committed. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated that he will support the Stimson position upon his accession to power. And yet any attempt along these lines can scarcely ignore the greatest power in the Near East, the Union whose strength in the Basin outweighs that of any other nation. Mr. Fish's fear...
...higher education, such as liberal arts colleges, tutorial systems, houses, and so forth, and of the practically infallible guarantee of value to society that ability to pay tution fees confers on the wards of these institutions, such a step as that proposed by the N.S.L. would, indeed, be highly dubious. To ask society to take a chance on indigent alumni, when it has all it can do to support such obviously indispensable groups as the CRIMSON Editorial Board, is willful and perverse. H. N. Doughty...
...Barbary Coast trade, when Mae plants a dirk in the gigolo's mistress. Simultaneously the Salvationist has been ascertaining to his own satisfaction that his Mae means well. By the time he turns out to be the famous detective he has disposed of such of Mae's dubious companions as she has left alive. Off they go for the parson, the moral apparently being that the Lord helps those who express themselves...