Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, Miss Lavinia Warren repulsed the attentions of Commodore Nutt because of his dissolute reputation, when he begged her hand in rivalry with General Thumb. The General's virtue was deemed above suspicion, though on Sept. 20, 1854, the Illustrated London News reported that "a lady, from excess of fantasy, eloped with him to the neighborhood of Guilligomach...
Nevertheless, many agencies have rushed investigators to Canton. Last week the Pittsburgh police held one "George the Greek" Psialias, alleged "reindeer," who was shown to have been near Canton at the hour of the shooting, but who eluded detention before Canton's sleuths could pin direct suspicion upon him. Canton's citizenry, abashed by their own past political indifference and by a week of unproductive sleuthing, forced the suspension of their local police chief, Seranus Lengel, who had been one of Mellett's prominent targets. There was even talk of changing Canton's form of city...
...government contracts. Premier Baldwin championed "the principle established in 1906 of permitting Cabinet Ministers to hold honorary corporate directorships," and the Labor motion was squelched by a government majority of 246. Cried Laborite Henderson: "It seems that all Conservatives, like Caesar's wife, are held by courtesy above suspicion...
Rubber. While there seems to be a difference of opinion concerning exactly what the different peoples of the Philippines want, nevertheless U. S. business men have a substantial suspicion that Colonel Carmi A. Thompson wants to find a few hundred thousand acres for the cultivation of rubber by American industries...
Correspondents ruefully discovered that with the recent advent of M. Caillaux (TIME, July 5) the Finance Ministry could now be expected to deny at eve its morning statements to the press. Amid this aura of uneasiness and suspicion, the franc sought a new low, 36.88 to the dollar...