Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teachers College's bald, nervous Clyde R. Miller, reaching Cleveland early, key-noted before the Cleveland Schoolmasters' Club: "Two percent of the people in the nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people...
...jeopardizing a thriving business. The smut business has boomed since the Depression because news dealers who once would not handle that sort of stuff will now sell anything which will put a few pennies in the till. It was revealed that of the average 50.000 circulation of the suspect magazines, 10% were sold in New York. Price: 25? a copy, of which the dealer gets 6?, the publisher 11?, the printer...
...there is also this to consider. The legion of Mr. Gill's friends, even before the investigation, was very large. It has been treated to an inspiring spectacle; it has seen an honest and valuable man brutally and inexcusably mauled by the press; it has had excellent reason to suspect that he is the victim of politics; it has cooled its heels on marble, waiting futily to attend a "public" hearing. It has, in short, become embittered and vociferous where once it was amiable...
Alfred E. Smith, whose explosive attacks on the Roosevelt administration have rendered him suspect of the nation's liberals, now offers an amendment to the proposed child labour law. He would have its age limit revised from eighteen to sixteen, to leave the question of child labor to the states, and limit federal interference to products which move in interstate commerce. In this way, Mr. Smith believes that the law would be more workable, and more acceptable--that it would stand a better chance of ratification and enforcement...
...German Monarchists should stop playing the fool!" shouted Herr Arthur Görlitzer, Vice Chief for Greater Berlin of the Nazi Party, to a quaking roomful of civil servants whom he seemed to suspect of Monarchism. "Men who work for a restoration of the Monarchy we will treat as we do those who think they must conduct propaganda for Moscow. Indeed we now regard the Monarchists as more dangerous than the Communists...