Word: distrusters
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...well-to-do," writes Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the pinko- liberal Nation, "contented and privileged, Older is an anathema. They not only hate, fear and distrust him, they honor him by their disbelief in his sincerity and honesty. To them 'the friend of crooks' is as good as a crook himself. . . . But his friends see in Fremont Older a journalistic knight-errant of superb power, who can never be made to know that he is beaten when it comes to a straight-put fight...
...only seven good Negro hospitals in the country and they can accommodate only 50 internes yearly. Practically none of the rest can get posts in general hospitals. So they must get work in dubious private hospitals or sanatoriums or else start practicing unprepared. Their medical inexperience makes patients distrust them. The patients do with home remedies or go to white doctors...
...profits are in store. There is mail to be carried and the governments as a matter of public policy pay handsomely.* Although none of the lines expect to carry much bulky express for years to come, there are precious diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, egret feathers and in districts where businessmen distrust checks, cash to be carried...
...their rebellion against the religion and moral code of their parents, but their disillusionment with their own rebellion. It is common for young men and women to rebel, but that they should rebel sadly and with out faith in their own rebellion, that they should distrust the new freedom no less than the old certainties-that is something of a novelty...
Perhaps the most interesting of the awards is that given Professor La Piana to complete his work on the History of the Catholic Church in the United States. Various considerations, notably the inherent American distrust of emphasis on organized religion as a social force have hitherto prevented this field from receiving proper treatment. Only recently with the increasing interest in history as the story of men rather than of their generals has the importance of an institution, which has never had political aspirations on this continent been recognized. Such aid as is now given to the study of this virtually...