Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the General ate his dinner, mobs shouted around the prison. Communists rioted in Bilbao. In San Sebastian, Republicans tried to lynch several Monarchists. In Barcelona, Archduke Carlos of Habsburg-Bourbon was arrested on suspicion. After a night of serene sleep General Sanjurjo set out for El Dueso Prison in Santander Province to begin a term which few Spaniards expect him to finish...
...Susanna. Mayor Walker: I certainly feel like it. Observers at the hearing suspected that Counsel Curtin was building up a case, in the event of the Mayor's removal, with which to go into the Federal courts under the "due process of law" clause of the Constitution. This suspicion was heightened when Mayor Walker spoke of a "vested interest" (salary) in his job which he might lose without a chance to question his accusers. Sweeping objections aside Governor Roosevelt proceeded to examine Mayor Walker on the Seabury charges. Few new facts were added to those which had already been...
...more than a year Helsingfors police have been baffled by ghouls. Some 40 corpses have been exhumed, mutilated, left lying beside their open graves. Public indignation has run high. Involved in the controversy were Minister of the Interior Baron Ernst von Born, who cast suspicion on Freemason organizations, and a Colonel Susitaivil who was accused of hampering police investigations. Last week Finland's Freemasons were cleared. Police raided a cemetery, caught three men and two women in the act of dissecting a cadaver. In the man's pockets were several pigeons. They explained that certain parts...
...years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust and sectional suspicion Sheriff Scott procured his murder indictments while Libby Holman's friends talked bitterly of a "legal lynching...
...hurt, that local companies must rely on their own resources now to get funds since holding companies are unable to assist them. Chief opposition to the ruling was based on the fact that most of the companies involved have already passed their dividends, that the Commission acted upon suspicion rather than final facts. While legal struggles were being predicted last week by utility men it was evident that Wisconsin's ruling might become a major milestone in holding company evolution, that the holding company is being subjected to a more thorough scrutiny than ever before. Two other evidences...