Word: suspects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suspect was a Negro named Arthur Collick. Two days later two civilian possemen spotted him emerging from a swamp. With him were two women. The posse caught the women, but Collick escaped, plunging back into the cypress growth. The prisoners were Lillian Blake, Collick's common-law wife, and her 14-year-old daughter Martha. The two were taken to the county jail at Snow Hill, locked...
Skeptics looked elsewhere and had cause to suspect that perhaps the real reason could be found in The Netherlands Indies, the rich, oil-laden islands in the South Seas. Switzerland does not own colonies. Tokyo correspondents quickly dug up a forgotten paragraph of a recent Arita speech in which the Foreign Minister spoke of "economic cooperation and collaboration" with "South Seas regions." Hugh Byas, the New York Times'?, man in Tokyo, believed that "collaboration" meant "more than cultivation of mutual trade." He speculated on the possibility of a U. S. embargo on oil exports to Japan, and the subsequent...
...revolution and at least one of the Cabinet crises were precipitated by the Rightist opposition. Last week Don Tinto had to cope with another Cabinet crisis. This time it was precipitated by the conservative wing of his own Party and Leader Florencio Duran, whom many not so conservative Chileans suspect of being on more than speaking terms with Rightist ex-President Arturo Alessandri...
...Just a Mood" by the Teddy Wilson Quartet (Brunswick), a blues recording done with the aid of Red Norve (xylo-phone), Harry James (trumpet), and Johnny Simmons (bass). This is blues as it should be--quiet, relaxed, and with long, luscious ideas. Harry James plays phenomenally, although I suspect that most of his solo is swiped from several old Louis Armstrong records...
...logic of Dr. Holmes is as solid as granite, and that opposing set of arguments contains possible weaknesses. Hitler, for example, is an imponderable; his reaction to, and behavior after, a peace settlement, cannot be safely predicted. British resolution to pursue the war to an idealistic conclusion may be suspect, propaganda notwithstanding. If there is a chance for peace, it is to the selfish interest of the United States to capitalize upon it; and for this reason, if for none other, it is the duty of President Roosevelt to attempt a settlement...