Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo's police began diligently searching for a suspect. Conspicuously missing with 600 yen of Nizaemon's postal savings was the servant girl's brother, a pale, stringy youth named Iida who served as the actor's make...
...G.O.P.'s National Chairman, Brownell had been suspect to rival politicos who feared-despite his careful denials-that he was working strictly for Dewey. He had run into criticism from aggressive Midwesterners who considered his strategy too cautious. But his real reason for resigning, he said, was to earn a living for his four children: he had served full time without salary since the summer...
Spellman's sure progress in the Church led some to suspect that he was ambitious, a church politician, an organizer who in secular life might have become chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He has never worn his piety on his sleeve, and even in an age of publicity, an archbishop's devotional life is largely a personal matter between him and his God. His rule has been the Biblical injunction: ". . . When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and -when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret... ." (Matthew...
...Yorkers often suspect that their complex metropolis floats on quicksand. This week their suspicions were at least partially confirmed. In a move unprecedented in peacetime and more drastic than any ever taken in war, Mayor William D. O'Dwyer suddenly called a halt to all the city's activities except those absolutely essential...
...studied attentiveness to Hilda Kruger, a blonde, onetime German spy-suspect, gained him the unjustified reputation of being pro-Nazi when, as Minister of the Interior, he directed anti-Axis activities in Mexico. FBI agents finally decided that Hilda was more anxious to be thought a spy than any government was to have...