Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cashier of a "Garden T Shoppe" in Washington was mortally wounded in a holdup. One Thomas Jordon, 31-year-old busboy, was among those suspected. Two years ago Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and wishing to get married wrote to inquire whether he was still under suspicion. Two Federal officers went to question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times reprieved, he was still in the death house awaiting execution last May when...
...tall, bald, stringy . as ever, the "Chance" seemed to many an alumnus no older. To Justice McReynolds he spryly observed: "I should be very glad if I could get on the same platform with you and run for President and Vice President. I have a suspicion that such a combination would be successful." But his voice cracked as he recited to his guests...
...Seniors, then, find out out in advance just what seating arrangements have been made for you, your families, and guests, and relay that information to all concerned in advance. So that tempers may not grow short and there be no suspicion of discrimination...
...Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That has led to a widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators now to be persuaded instead of 133, the new Legislature is perhaps even more easily influenced than the old. Governor Cochran's legislative spokesman and the session's outstanding member, 35-year-old Charles Albert Dafoe of Tecumseh (fourth cousin of the Dionne...
...stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pepper-up," "pep pills...