Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blow, Gabriel. In Boston, Thomas J. Owens drew a three-month sentence for theft after he stole a $300 trumpet, aroused suspicion by trying to peddle it first as a clarinet, then as a trombone...
...days of Japan's burgeoning Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, he was one of occupied Manchuria's top economic czars. As former Minister of Commerce and Industry in militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, he was clapped into jail by the allied occupation forces on suspicion of being a war criminal, later released without trial. "When I found out I was not to be indicted or hanged," he said, "I began to think about the rest of my life as a bonus to be spent wisely. I decided that Japan must have real democracy and never...
...talked. By De la Maza's story, he and Murphy together had indeed spirited a cancer patient from Miami to Ciudad Trujillo. But the mysterious passenger was not Galindez. It was, instead, one Francisco ("The Lame One") Martinez Jara, urgently wanted then and now by U.S. authorities on suspicion of arranging the Galindez kidnaping. (Martinez Jara himself has since been reported missing, and his wife was killed last August in an automobile accident in Ciudad Trujillo...
Significantly, the U.S. note specifically included a request for De la Maza's alleged suicide note. Washington's investigators obviously wanted a look at the handwriting. And until the Dominican Republic proved its story, U.S. police could not discard the suspicion that Galindez' disappearance had brought in its train as many as four cover-up murders...
This was a long retreat for a party that fought EDC, denounced conscription, called for "freedom from alliances," played to German desires for reunification at the expense of Western allegiance, and has long regarded the U.S. with sulky suspicion while displaying a romantic affinity for Nehrunian neutralism. Ollenhauer even hopes, on his forthcoming U.S. trip, to break Adenauer's monopoly on U.S. affections...