Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Arsenio Ortiz last week stamped furiously. Than catching and trying nimble rebels, he found it easier ?o shoot and hang any suspected person he could lay hands on. Such last fortnight were three guards of a U. S.-owned sugar mill at Jatibonico. Ortiz had them slaughtered on suspicion. The company's vice president posted off to Havana to protest to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. Soon Ortiz followed, talked with officials and flew back to the Santa Clara front...
...there until June. Meantime State police and constables guarded the school property. The fires (loss $300,000) had both been started in windward corners of basements. Not only that: within the past few weeks five other fires had been discovered, snuffed out in time. Clearly it was arson, with suspicion pointing at a discharged school employe...
...relief, railroads, public works and the large variety of panaceas put forward by more imaginative but less substantial citizens. Bernard Mannes Baruch had sounded the keynote the opening day: "Put Federal credit beyond peradventure of a doubt. . . . No nation ever dared to incur deficits as large as ours. The suspicion is growing that we do not really intend to balance the budget...
...Thirteen men and women are seated around a dinner table, thoroughly happy. Their genial host arises to respond to a toast, and before he sits again twelve people are through ly miserable, each suspected of the murder of the host's brother. For some fifteen minutes the finger of suspicion points alternately to each of the guests. The tenseness of the situation reaches a maximum; suddenly a scream is heard, the butler staggers in, ghastly pale, and the curtain falls. The audience is left to wonder which of thirteen possible suspects, each with some betrayal of guilt, is the murderer...
Painful were these revelations to Tokyo's Mayor, popular Hidejiro Nagata, who with flying coattails has opened many a baseball game at Tokyo's Stadium in the Meiji Grounds, and who is a national figure, renowned for sturdy patriotism, sage wit. Though no slightest suspicion pointed at either Mr. Nagata or at any of his kin, he promptly scapegoated, announced his resignation as Mayor of Tokyo with this terse explanation, "I desire to embrace full responsibility...