Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secessionist movement conveniently arose. Panama broke away from Colombia. Promptly recognized as a new and sovereign state by President Roosevelt, she promptly permitted the U. S. to build the Panama Canal. Should Manchuria secede from China, what is to prevent Independent Manchuria from later merging with Japan? Full of suspicion, Chinese patriots scanned Japan for a Roosevelt. Is he Baron Kijuro Shidehara, famed Japanese Foreign Minister...
...suspicion of practical persons that it would be to the interest of the teams to lengthen baseball's World Series so as to increase the gate receipts, is unfounded. Players and managers receive their percentage of the receipts only from the first four contests. Twice in the last five years the series has been decided in four games; since 1926 American League teams (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics) have won 16 out of 19 World Series games. Partly on the strength of these statistics, partly because the Athletics had a supposedly superior pitching staff, partly because the strategies conceived...
...Scottish coast everybody knew quarrelsome Campbell and few liked him. When he was found dead near a half-finished painting it looked like an accident, but Lord Peter sniffed blood, proved to the police the picture had been painted after Campbell was dead. Six artists immediately fell under suspicion, but ultimately only one of them got it in the neck, and Authoress Sayers intimates that he was not born to be hanged...
This might have gone on forever had not one of Wolf's brokers become suspicious of the vast amount of collateral at the disposal of a modest bank clerk. The suspicion was laid before a vice president of Continental Illinois. An audit of Wolf's accounts was made while he was on vacation. The audit disclosed nothing amiss. But in his $75-a-month home in River Forest Wolf heard of the audit and thought his game was up. He asked the vice president, an old, personal friend, to call at his house that evening...
...discussed throughout the world. ... I am firmly convinced it would be good business to initiate a reduction of these debts at this time." The attack on the tariff did Mr. Wiggin no good with the Hoover Administration. Since his remarks on the War debts, France has viewed him with suspicion as a probable believer in revision of the Treaty of Versailles...