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Word: suspects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this had come to light, but the Japanese have believed for many months that the Chinese Communists were "leading the way for Chiang's troops" in their peculiar retreat through seven Chinese provinces and that this must have been by secret agreement between Moscow and Nanking. Chinese darkly suspect Japan and Germany of having a secret treaty of military assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...installations in appalling quantities. But even if we discount this rather gruesome possibility, we cannot escape the gasoline motor. Our tanks, our trucks, our reconnaissance and combat cars . . . will present a continuing fire and explosion hazard. And as they go up under enemy fire and enemy bombing, I rather suspect that you will find more first, second and third degree burns than any of us like to consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ready for War | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Because the identity of his father was long kept a secret from him, not until four years ago did Raymond Moulton O'Brien, British-born Manhattan oilman, suspect he might be the Right Honorable the Earl of Thomond of County Clare, Ireland. Son of his mother's first husband instead of her second, as she had led him to believe, he first learned of his claim to nobility when she was unable to provide him with a proper birth certificate, admitted that she had deceived him. Because no O'Brien has claimed the peerage of Thomond since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents from sending their sons to schools which they may suspect of resembling Stone Ridge Military Academy ("You Give Us The Boy, We Return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

This time they have been trying to succeed in breaking and ousting from the Russian Communist Party every critic of the Dictator-following the execution by firing squads of 16 of his critics as "Trotskyites" (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week the hounding and persecution of even faintly suspect Party comrades had reached such ridiculous lengths that Party headquarters in Moscow, with or without orders from Stalin, called a halt and slapped into Soviet newsorgans glaring examples of overzeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Again Dizzy | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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