Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from what little they knew, thought Judge English should be impeached. Then as they learned that nothing had been indisputably proved against him, many wavered. Finally, however, the able lawyer-Congressmen who led the fight for impeachment convinced the House: 1) That it must impeach if it had reasonable suspicion; 2) That it was entitled to consider the Judge's general course of conduct (not merely this or that separate offense). On these two grounds, it was clear impeachment would be voted. Congressmen trooped to their seats, the amazing number of 400 being present. The galleries were packed. Speaker Longworth...
...York Times explained, regretted. Mr. Wheeler made no statement. But Peorians, their suspicion aroused, were not satisfied until next day, when reporters of Mid-West, papers vouched that they had seen the one-eyed one resting in his home, at Westerville, Ohio...
...Court of Assizes at Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. In that car had been murdered Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, Deputy, a man marked by all Fascists as the foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 23, 1924). From the spark of tragedy ignited by his death a powder train of suspicion flamed toward Mussolini and was barely stifled without blowing up the Fascist party. The entire Aventine Opposition walked out of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and has not returned* as a protest against both the crime itself and the ruthless methods of suppressing the scandal adopted by Fascismo. Not long...
What may be called the consensus of suspicion favored Mussolini as the villain of the piece last week.** Conservative observers were not so sure. Brazil is far from Europe. It is most convenient to all the Great Powers that a nation so far from Europe can now be loaded with the whole cargo of official blame...
...Matteotti murder (June 10, 1924), as everyone knows, seriously embarrassed the Fascist Party, resulted in the arrest of 25 Fascists, and gave rise to rumors which still brand Premier Mussolini with the suspicion of having instigated the assassination. One by one 20 of the more prominent arrested persons have been released by the public prosecutor or set free under the last general amnesty. Recently the wife of Matteotti withdrew from all participation in the prosecution which her attorneys characterized as "judicially and morally nil." Last week there began the trial of five men who are regarded widely as mere scapegoats...