Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME gladly prints this authoritative denial of a suspicion current in Chicago. In reporting the story originally, TIME said: "Offsetting the 'frame-up' theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had 'positively identified' Brothers as the 'big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye' who had shot Lin-gle." Last week, one month after his arrest, Leo V. Brothers had his first hearing in open court, mumbled "On the advice of my attorneys I stand mute." Under the law the judge thereupon directed that a plea...
...jail register, only his initials, "R. G.," and the laconic explanation: "For motives of public securitv." Presumably Fascist higher-ups are involved, and in such cases the "purging" (as it is called in Italy) is always accomplished in profound silence. The party, absolutely absolute, is maintained above suspicion, the culprits expelled, the guilty punished...
...several times during the year past, men have been approached: for the most part, however, the racket has been unsuccessful because of the suspicion aroused. In one day, several parents of Harvard undergraduates were called up on the telephone, apparently by the same worker...
...fortnight ago for the recall of the Power Commission nominations. He reasoned that of course the Senate had no legal power to take the nominations from the President but that he assumed the President would welcome an opportunity to resubmit them to the Senate to clear himself of the suspicion of befriending the "Power Trust...
Another current suspicion was that Brothers, with no Chicago record as a gangster, was being "framed" by the Chicago Tribune as a means of winding up the whole foul Lingle mystery. The announcement of Brothers' capture, carefully timed for a Tribune scoop on the details, coincided with the first meeting of a special Grand Jury investigating Chicago crime and police. Offsetting the "frame-up" theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had "positively identified" Brothers as the "big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye" who had shot Lingle...