Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exquisitely normal. But of the others, this cannot be said. It has been discovered, with pained surprise, that some of these men are relatively large holders of silver contracts, with which they are speculating or hope to speculate soon. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Morgenthau, has expressed his suspicion, "informally," according to one report, that some of the supporters of the movement are not altogether "disinterested" in their activities. (Mr. Morgenthau displays a commendable restraint of phrase in these days of flaming crescendi of indignation). The newspapers, with their usual acuity of perception, have reached the same conclusion, which...
Then Dentist Zepeda set a match to Nicaragua's prime emotion: suspicion of the U. S., of which Sandino was hero and symbol. "I am suspicious," said Zepeda, "of the fact that the U. S. Minister to Nicaragua Arthur Bliss Lane had luncheon with General Somoza only a few hours before Sandino was assassinated by Somoza's National Guardsmen." Well-known is the fact that Somoza has potent friends among the U. S. citizens in Nicaragua, as has President Sacasa...
...Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter Marshall William Splawn went a report to Congress last week on another kind of holding company-telephone & telegraph. Urging enactment of the Rayburn bill to establish a separate Federal Communications Commission, Dr. Splawn eyed the $5,000,000,000 American Telephone & Telegraph System with deep suspicion, recommended that it be investigated. His suspicions were based largely on his study of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., an independent about one-fiftieth the size of A. T. & T., now in receivership. ''What is disclosed by the examination of the Associated Telephone Utilities Co. is in my judgment...
...April Fool's Day 59 years ago. But Manchester could not hold him long. World-wide traveler, his particular provinces are the Near East. Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. He speaks many languages fluently, some like a native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid of history. . . ." Other hooks: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, Dreamy Rivers (TIME...
...handle or stock of the gun, in the shape of the handle of a crutch has been taken and suspicion has been directed both against the anti-war and the pro-war factions. This gun was originally a part of the armament of the cruiser "Harvard" during the World War. With the loss of its handle, the gun apparently lost its pride, for it has begun to droop dejectedly...