Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gangsters who four years ago held the City in their grip, that Governor Lehman set up a Special Prosecutor, Thomas E. Dewey, with all powers necessary to clean up the town. Mr. Dewey's record for rooting out the gangsters at the top, and for getting his suspect convicted, has been nothing short of phenomenal, far better, indeed, than the, more highly publicized Federal Bureau of G-Man Hoover...
...Cubans are shot down by gunmen as they leave the cafe, thus making their comrades suspect that Morgan had betrayed the trio. Morgan returns to his tourist fishing parties, only to have his fishing tackle lost overboard by a tourist, who at cruise-end welches on making the loss good. The tackle cost $360, must be replaced if Morgan is to continue as a party-boatman. The rest of the story relates the more & more dangerous expedients he is driven...
...Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast has never sent him a card. Some thirty times our tutor has baited it, but the prey eludes the trap. Mournfully we suspect that somewhere in Widener even now there is a modified Jonah who has been prowling around the bowels of the Beast for three years, encouraged at the beginning of every month only by three cards, like those he got the month before. It is a sad tale, true, but our tutor...
...overheard the incident sometime later by a member of the fireroom force who stated that they held hot shovels under the ventilator as the fish came down and flapjacked them until nicely broiled. This, I suspect, was an exaggeration...
...court proposal-as well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress with some misgivings; we suspect that the spirit of fair play may search him out and plague him in the pages of the New Republic as well...