Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While serving as head of Canada's liaison mission to General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo after World War II. Norman was called home for questioning and a new security check. The principal point of suspicion: his association with Israel Halperin. a major in the Royal Canadian Artillery who was tried on a charge of aiding the Sam Carr-Fred Rose atom spy ring, and acquitted...
...murder has to be proved by expert evidence." Even Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the defendant in one of the longest murder trials in Old Bailey's history, was said to have asked in wonderment, "Can you prove it was murder?", when police arrested him last December on suspicion of having poisoned his eccentric old patient, Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell, in seaside Eastbourne six years earlier...
When the Soviet tanks came blasting back into Budapest to oust Premier Nagy's legitimate government, Editors Obersovszky and Gali urged continued resistance, changed the name of their clandestine journal to We Live! It was during this time that Hospital Patient Kollar fell under their suspicion: the underground group feared that he would betray them. Said Ilona Toth: "I felt I had to kill him." When her needles failed, one of her companions stood on Kollar's neck and she dispatched him with a knife...
...middle class American public towards labor unions has been heightened recently by the expose of graft in Dave Beck's Teamsters Union, and this is apparently only the beginning of a series of investigations of reported criminal activities in other unions. Corruption in the unions, as well as suspicion of Communist infiltration of union leadership, give the many supporters of management's position tangible weapons to utilize in the struggle to protect their own economic desires...
...raise cash for F-M stock purchases. The company's true net income (not counting nonrecurring items) was $2,228,000 in 1956, a drop of $689,544 from 1955's comparable figure. On Penn-Texas stockholders, who gather for their annual meeting in May, the suspicion may grow that Financier Silberstein's "victory" is too breathtaking to bear...