Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only that, but in London British patriots began to suspect that a U. S. corporation might join the Cooks-Wagons-Lits merger. Of these possibilities Captain Cohn naturally said not a word last week. Instead he expanded on the immediate benefits of merging "Cooks' " into Wagons-Lits. With a bland contented air, Captain Cohn said...
Facile Andre Maurois, biographer in the new imaginative manner, brings a foreigner's sympathy to Benjamin Disraeli, Jew, enigma, suspect; gauges his ambition, lists the obstacles, counts the defeats, shows that Disraeli learned to temper his brilliance with patience until at last, aged and broken, he attained "the top of the slippery pole" of politics...
...target, must be shot, first and approached afterwards. Again, he must be shot, for the safety of his persecutor, at a reasonable distance. Sent from the hand of an excitable person evisioning rewards, the bullet is more than likely to pass through several estimable citizens before it reaches some suspect later found both innocent and dead. The weapons of prohibition agents have taught the country the menace of the armed pursuit of offenders. Both the security of Texas banks and an offective, sensible handling of social enemies are laudable ends, but the means chosen by these bankers to attain them...
Vare Case No. 2. The renowned election of Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania came up for Senate action not only through the labors of Inquisitor Reed of Missouri, but, also through the protest of William Bauchop Wilson, the Democrat whom Mr. Vare's votes defeated. Mr. Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor, charged Mr. Vare & friends with corruption and false returns. Mr. Wilson laid his case before the Senate's regular Committee on Privileges & Elections and requested a recount of the Vare-Wilson votes. Last week, dividing on strictly party lines, the Committee voted 8 to 6 to dismiss...
...often find myself dissatisfied with such a classification. It draws a very misleading distinction between our members, for I am sure you will find that most if not all of those who are catalogued as professors are themselves students, busily engaged in the prosecution of their studies, and I suspect you will find that many of your best teachers here, whose teaching you will value most highly in later years, will be found among those who are catalogued as students. We welcome you who come from other lands precisely because you come in the double capacity of student and teacher...