Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assume, for the sake of illustration, that the plan is pushed to actual enactment by the sheer zeal and determination of its believers. ... In the end, I suspect, there would be violent inflation - a marking up of prices of everything to figures at which the business turnover could stand a tax of $24,000,000,000 a year. At that point, the folk over 60 might be getting their $200 a month - but they would find they could not buy the automobiles they now think they could. A haircut would cost say $2 ; a sexagenarian meal of bread and milk...
Thereupon, Counsel Reilly began a long enveloping movement in which he turned up every conceivable suspect of the crime except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon...
Truculently the Hunterdon prosecutor admitted that he "did not suspect persons interested directly in Hauptmann's defense of adopting underhand methods." but charged that the incident was of a piece with other recent happenings which might yet "land somebody else in a cell along with Hauptmann...
...declare, I suspect you of desiring "to stir up the monkeys...
...leading role of the murdered woman, Edith Mera will be remembered for her performance as Milady in the "Trois Monsquetaires" which was seen here last year, while Constant Remi plays the part of Santerre, a suspect...