Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next evening Caesar Petrillo appeared at an A.F. of M. party in the plush ballroom of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel. To reporters, all of whom are suspect to him, he snapped: "We're just trying to keep these foreign musicians from getting our jobs. Look at the tariff laws.. . . Look at the immigration law. Why the hell should the musicians be suckers...
...could look hard at UNRRA. They could suspect-and in some cases rightly-that there was waste; that sometimes supplies filtered into the black markets; that other mistakes were made...
...original lie detector measured the subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...
Hero of the Pacific War, he was nevertheless a little suspect in Senators' eyes. The reason: a special committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appointed to survey merger opinion among generals and admirals, had reported Nimitz as favoring the idea on Dec. 8, 1944. The committee quoted him as saying: "I favor a single civilian secretary of armed forces, with a complete elimination of civilian secretaries for the Army, for the Navy, and for the Air Forces, with the idea of reducing any tendency to separation." This was eye-to-eye with the way the Army sees today...
...nearby cell of the Tower languished another treason suspect-handsome, youthful Lord Robert Dudley, whose father, the Duke of Northumberland, had just been beheaded. As children, Lord Robert and the Lady Elizabeth had played together; they had studied Latin under the same tutor. In the Tower they met again. Soon it was rumored that dashing Prisoner Dudley had so bewitched Prisoner Elizabeth that she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. The rumor seemed to be confirmed nearly five years later, when Elizabeth rode in state to her coronation, and Robert Dudley, her newly created Master of the Horse, proudly...