Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers, and insist that there must be assurance that American property rights will not be jeopardized, before they will submit to any judgment upon these rights. Arbitration under such circumstances resembles taking what one wants and flipping a coin to see if one was justified. An uncomfortable suspicion arises that the administration is marking time until revolution shall break out in Mexico and enable "the Devil-Dogs" to go in to restore order, protect American lives and property, and allow the United States Petroleum interests to develop Mexican resources in their own sweet...
...many cults, though, thank-offerings to God are used for the support of His priests. We harbour an uncomfortable suspicion that a large part of the earnings of the Anti-Saloon League are used not to fight Rum but rather the wolves from the doors of Wayne B. Wheeler and his fellow pioneers of abstinence...
...Governor Walker's $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the leader of the floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown...
Electrician Imprisoned. One Julius M. Chevalier, U. S. electrical worker, arrived from Russia at Riga, Latvia, last week, in good spirits and good health. Since May 19, 1924, he has been, upon his own statement, successively imprisoned and detained without trial upon the mere suspicion that he had furthered anti-Bolshevist plots in the Caucasus. He declared that during the winter of 1925 he was imprisoned on Solovetsky Island, where 3,000 of his 7,000 fellow prisoners died "from insufficient food and intolerable treatment...
...unguent, and greatly fearing another. The first, visible, was that out of the total circulation of the 153 journals, but 125,000 answered, which is about one-third the circulation of a single one of them, the New York World (309,386). The second (a natural suspicion) was that only zealots (believers and unbelievers) had gone to the trouble of marking ballots and mailing...