Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When these Power Commissioners' nominations arrived at the Capitol, many a Senator bristled with innate suspicion. Opposition quickly developed to Mr. McNinch. By law his place on the Commission must go to a Democrat. But Mr. McNinch, recommended by North Carolina's "lame duck" Senator Simmons, helped lead the 1928 anti-Smith movement which turned his State Republican. Senate Democrats doubted his Democracy, sought to question him on his 1930 vote. Another charge against Commissioner McNinch-which he loudly denied-was that he had covert connections with the Duke power interests and from them secured political funds, still...
From the outset, the Ford company met with difficulties. The concession he bought was an old one and contained certain clauses which angered Brazilians, made a political issue out of the enterprise. Suspicion increased so soon as he paid more than the average wage-scale. He encountered difficulties in exporting seeds from other Brazilian states to Para, where his plantation is. Few of the rubber trees planted have survived...
Significance. One effect of the trial last week was to turn popular suspicion in Moscow upon the local colony of foreign diplomats. "The trial throws new light on the espionage system here," declared The Moscow Worker. "The spies are not old-school snoopers with electric torches and disguises but honored gentlemen living in mansions guarded by the Soviet police and with limousines adorned by many-colored national flags"-i.e. embassy and legation pennants...
...Purity" should have been bestowed upon the piece which is at present adorning the stage of the Plymouth is very hard to say. When one sees that Florence Reed is the star of the production, one begins to suspect its purity, and when one sees the production itself, all suspicion is confirmed in a most thoroughgoing fashion. There is nothing pure, either morally or artistically, about "Purity...
Significance. Most German papers viewed with suspicion Il Duce's stand for revision of the Peace Treaties?the thing Germany most wants?because he uttered in the same breath a rallying cry to Adolf Hitler's German Fascists. Said Berlin's Socialist Vorw?...