Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factor making for U. S. prosperity and political freedom was that in the period of greatest U. S. growth the seas were under democratic control. Although U. S. -British cooperation is suspect in the U. S. because it "obviously operates to the benefit of the British Commonwealth and not so obviously to the benefit of the U. S.," Lord Lothian believes that the issue would be clear when the U. S. understood what control of the sea by totalitarian powers would mean. "Do you suppose for one moment that if Nazi Germany or Communist Russia obtained control of the seas...
...Named a three-man board to map procedure for firing aliens from State payrolls. "It is not the British we are so much afraid of. We merely suspect the ones from Germany...
...protest. "I very much dislike even to appear disagreeable," crooned Bob Reynolds. Reminded that his previous amendment left a few jobs open to aliens, he stripped his prohibition down to employment of Nazis and Communists. A few Senators ventured that under Senator Reynolds' terms all employers would be suspect, that none could ever be sure of his innocence. Senator Reynolds waved this objection aside, got his unenforceable amendment passed without a recorded vote. The Senate then passed what was left of the La Follette-Thomas Bill, sent the measure on its uncertain way to the House. The La Follette...
Fifth-column alarms sounded all over the Western Hemisphere last week-in the U. S., in South America (see p. 20). in Mexico, in Canada (see p. 38). So widespread were they that it was plausible to suspect that Adolf Hitler had planned it that way. For if U. S. attention could be focused on the Western Hemisphere, there was less chance of any useful aid being sent to the European democracies, which were at last to bear the full brunt of Axis attack...
...probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...