Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic President of the Association of the Bar of New York City (TIME, Dec. 13). As the Mexican Government retorts in kind, the "rights" and even the facts of the case are rapidly fading from view. Each new barrage of propaganda, from whichever side, must be weighed with the suspicion appropriate to the consideration of a plea in court for the plaintiff or the defense...
News-stand-buyer John Box casts unwarranted suspicion upon the exploit of honest Albert Snook. Let Mr. Box turn to p. 14 of TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, and read how Albert Snook won not "an antique" but "The Chess Game," a painting by John Singer Sargent, at a lottery for the benefit of lay patrons of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard...
...Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool. He had pursued a conciliatory policy toward Italy, he signed an accord with Rome last year; and now Signor Mussolini and President Zogu of Albania had both double-crossed him. He was a numskull? so raved the press of Belgrade...
...national. He accordingly obtained a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of educational needs and of contemporary aims and practices; and on that knowledge were based his just criticisms and constructive suggestions. At a time when the study of education as an important subject of university study was regarded with suspicion by the majority of academic faculties in leading American universities, he had the vision and the courage to establish the study of education at Harvard...
...great changes, which existed in China in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, and which, in fact, to a large extent remains unchanged at the present day. Such a history naturally gives to the Chinese a large measure of national consciousness, and makes them inclined to view with suspicion the domineering policies of the much younger Western civilization...