Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faces of the U. S. Secret Service operatives, and the methods with which they had worked on the case quietly and tenaciously as muskrats for seven weeks, remained, as always, a deep Government secret. Just as unostentatiously, anonymous Secret Service men in Cleveland last week uncovered three more suspect counterfeiters whom they charged with passing $100,000 in forged bills through the East and Midwest...
Three years ago Professor Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute was studying various elements by the magneto-optic method when he got unexpected results which led him to suspect the existence of a hydrogen isotope whose nucleus was twice as heavy as that of ordinary hydrogen. Not long afterward Dr. Urey and two associates concentrated enough of the isotope to identify it. He estimated that heavy hydrogen was present in ordinary hydrogen gas to the extent of about one part in 4,000. He named the new isotope deuterium...
...automobile industry in particular has reason to suspect the good faith of the NRA. After considerable discussion there was inserted in the code of the motor group a provision to the effect that collective bargaining would not in any way impair the right of the employer to promote or discharge on the basis of merit and efficiency. No sooner had this clause been approved when it was publicly repudiated by the NRA in response to the protests of organized labor. No other industry was later permitted to have a similar clause and for all practical purposes the famous merit clause...
...changed the word "social" to "public" and signed it. It took Calles' men six months to get him out of office and make his law a dead-letter. Whereupon some 15,000 poor Veracruz farmers armed themselves and went to war against the Government. Boss Calles began to suspect that Senor Tejeda was a troublemaker. He knew it when Tejeda resigned from the National Revo lutionary Party, announced that he was a candidate for President and roved out of his home State to stump all Mexico. All the citizens of Nicolas Romero were on hand last week to hear...
...President Roosevelt he says: "[He] is no Cincinnatus; his manifest scheming for the job gives his measure." NRAdministrator Johnson he calls "that vulgar ruffian Johnson, Roosevelt's strong-arm man." He finds it "hard to imagine a more despicable institution than our press. ... All that makes me suspect there may be something in Technocracy is that the New York Times and Herald Tribune ridicule it. If they ignored it altogether, I would be practically sure it was a pretty sound thing...