Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupants of Dudley Hall arouses a faint feeling of disgust so soon after a tercentenary marked by pledges of continued freedom and liberality. Small-minded bigotry evinced by tearing up campaign literature and hindering members of the Landon-Knox committee from distributing their material only results in the pitying suspicion that certain commuters are as yet not sufficiently mature to enjoy the new-found freedom of Dudley Hall. Perhaps a nursery in the Union would serve their purposes as well...
What were the Bolsheviks up to? Had Moscow deliberately tried to wreck the new Monetary Peace during its first hours by a Russian bear raid on sterling? In the excited timbre of Secretary Morgenthau's voice when he first spoke there was perhaps a hint of suspicion of this sort, but most U. S. Treasury officials soon calmed down to a more comfortable theory. After all the Moscow comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European...
...unwarranted display of paternalism on the part of University Hall, ridiculous in its conception and a nuisance in its effect. The history of Harvard social life during the five years of the House plan gives no excuse for such Pinkerton tactics, while the regulation itself points the finger of suspicion at every young lady who has ever been entertained unchaperoned within Harvard walls...
...considered opinion that the representatives of Imperial Airways have behaved throughout with perfect propriety. The action taken by them has been dictated by a jealous regard for the honour of the Company and the maintenance of public integrity, and sprang only from a natural apprehension lest the barest suspicion should arise that the relations between the Company and His Majesty's Government had been influenced by individual and personal interests...
Example: After suspicion fell on a youth named Grober in Rostov, a woman who had sponsored him for membership in the Party was expelled, as were the chairman of the union to which Grober belonged and three men who had sat with him on a committee and were accused of "not exposing Grober." Grober's younger brother and sister were not only expelled from the Young Communist League but also from school. Last week the Moscow Central Party Committee scorchingly rebuked the Rostov Party Committee and ordered general reinstatement of all those "punished." Moscow had discovered that the charge...