Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League is on trial," said President de Valera. "There is a suspicion abroad that little more than lip service is being paid to the fundamental principles upon which the League was founded. There is a suspicion that the action of the League in the economic sphere can be paralyzed by the pressure of national interests. There is a suspicion, gentlemen, that if the hand that is raised against the Covenant of the League is sufficiently strong it can smite with impunity...
...themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread. ... In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till at length in the dusk one evening a young canvasback snatched a piece of bread from my fingers. Then the frost of suspicion and fear began to thaw. I continued my coaxing and in a few days three of the four young canvasbacks would come to me for food. The fourth could never be induced to feed from the hand...
...Manitoba. Last month huge shortages were found in the trust and endowment funds of the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg) and the Anglican diocese of Rupert's Land (TIME, Sept. 5). Suspicion pointed at John Alexander Machray, 67, bursar of the University, chancellor of the diocese. He was arrested. Manitobans could scarcely believe it possible. He was a famed lawyer, graduate of St. John's School and College (Winnipeg), also of Cambridge and the University of Manitoba; son-in-law of a rich retired brewer; onetime president of the Manitoba Red Cross and of the League of Nations Society...
...crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows and bad bat willows depend on the botanical strains and perhaps the sex of the willow tree. Were Fairies an Actual Race of Men? asked Dr. John Arnott MacCulloch, the learned canon of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. He finds it noteworthy that many...
...Boise's First National of Idaho had grown to be the State's largest bank. As long as all Idahoans can remember, First National has stood as solid as the Continental Divide. Even after Boise City National Bank closed last month, no one eyed First National with suspicion. With no runs, no inklings of imminent trouble, First National's customers one morning last week found posted on the doors a terse note from the U. S. bank examiner stating that the directors had voted to close the institution in the interests of depositors. Simultaneously nine affiliated country...