Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duly sworn that Herren Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff were six places at once on the night of the incendiarism. Quite the most ingenious charge to date was made yesterday by a good brownshirt who asserted that Torgler had tried to get him to burn the building "so that suspicion would be placed on the Nazis." The strategical brilliance of this move would have escaped any but a Nazi. CASTOR...
...sport-loving widow of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, and her elderly white maid, Mina Buckner, were found hacked to death in their beds on Mrs. Ilsley's estate at Middleburg, Va. Wanted for the murder was George Crawford, Negro chauffeur whom Mrs. Ilsley had discharged on suspicion of stealing her liquor (TIME, May 8). A Virginia Grand Jury indicted Crawford but the police could not find him. Last January he was picked up in Boston on a petty larceny charge...
Past experience leaves ground for the suspicion that a competent lecturer cannot be found for the purpose. If such be the case, or if it is considered that an occasional lecture might unduly smother the spontaneity of undergraduate economic thought, at least it should be required that the various section men in Economics A devote part of each hour to uninterrupted comment upon the text. This would assure a measure of uniform progress, and give the course an effectiveness which it now lacks...
...Making four speeches to McKee's one, he did not let his opponent's charges go long unnoticed. He, too, had pledged charter reforms and at the Harvard Club had impressed many of his conservative listeners, to whom his past radicalism was the cause of grave suspicion, with a plan to refinance the city's indebtedness at lower interest rates. He now stepped up to a microphone, radioed a paragraph-by-paragraph critique of the McKee address. Facts at his chubby fingertips, the tousle-headed little candidate barked: "Let us see how Mr. McKee 'instituted real...
...like a bag of tools," smiled Sir Josiah. "They hoped he might never have to use them, but he has had to take them out of the bag one after the other, and now they are get ting a bit scared about the more extreme instruments. . . . There is a suspicion that the NRA is putting up costs and not increasing purchasing power. ... In all countries except Russia the mainspring of employment is profit. Keep profits in sight and you go on. . . . Production in the United States has now fallen off, especially in the construction field. Some industries are showing...