Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Russia. The wild guesses and speculations current in the Occidental press caused loud reverberations of scorn in the Levantine and Japanese press. Levantine editors remarked that the violent "Westernizing" campaign being carried on in Turkey by Kemal Pasha precludes his ever being regarded by Orientals with anything but suspicion. At Tokyo, the Board of Directors of the Pan-Asiatic Society of Japan denounced the proposed Asiatic League, saying that they propose to work for Asiatic union "along peaceful lines and not in imitation of the war like League of the West...
...with an almost unexampled record of Spanish tyrants and Latin American usurpers. The new President, Señor Adolfo Diaz, was elected by the Nicaraguan Congress in joint session, an assembly so accustomed to being bullied by armed factions in Nicaragua that its acts must always be regarded with suspicion. Apparently President Diaz was elected because he is known to be persona grata to the U. S., which intervened to support him when he was previously elected President in 1910 and again...
...burst of gratitude to the U. S. to sanction the long mooted sale of 51% of the stock of the Nicaragua National Bank to the Guarantee Trust Co. of Manhattan, an institution which has more than once made history in Latin America. Said President Diaz, to blast any suspicion of U. S. "dollar diplomacy": "If the Bank of Nicaragua had been controlled by U. S. interests it would not have been robbed of $161,000 [TIME, May 17] by armed revolutionaries of the Nicaraguan Liberal Party...
...modern opportunism liable to be reached by a church which allows itself to become politically minded. . . . [The annulment] is an insult, whether calculated or not, to an old communion to which we are proud to belong." The charge of opportunism is understood to be a reference to the suspicion that Rome desires another English duke in the fold. For many years all England's 26 dukes, save only the Duke of Norfolk (Roman Catholic), have been Anglicans...
Over the reader who flipped the pages of Your Body stole the conviction that some "radio bug" must have conceived it and dictated its format. The suspicion appeared well-grounded. Though several of the contributors are M.D.'s, the president of the concern which publishes Your Body is Hugo Gernsback. Even before the days of "radio," his Electrical Experimenter was a magazine which catered to the "electrical bugs" who were the forerunners of the "radio bugs...