Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Johnson and his cohorts spread the suspicion that the secret papers contained some sinister bargain which the Administration was afraid to reveal. Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, of Arkansas, Senate minority leader and Democratic delegate to the London Conference, proposed to qualify the McKellar resolution by requesting the confidential papers only "if not incompatible with the public interest." Familiar with their contents, he declared: "The whole discussion is a tempest in a teapot. . . . They [the papers] are absolutely trivial and insignificant so far as they reflect any light on the Treaty. ... If they were ever published they would make...
...After Lingle had been exposed as racketeering with the powers of his newspaper, charges were made by Reporter Harry T. Brundidge of the St. Louis Star of similar racketeering by men of all Chicago papers. Then all the papers quarreled, eyed each other with ill-concealed suspicion...
...Trade is treated as if it were contraband. The atmosphere is poisoned with suspicion and mistrust. Let us have brotherhood. It is only the Christian churches that...
...Lingle disclosures confirmed, rather than aroused, public suspicion that newsmen are subject to temptation into "rackets," mild or strong. With few exceptions, newspaper publishers look with complaisance upon the favors openly bestowed upon sports writers by promoters of this prizefight or that ball game. Many a publisher shuts his eyes to the inducements offered financial reporters. In rarer instances, such as that of Jake Lingle, when the reporter has intrenched himself solidly among racketeers, the reporting job becomes secondary to the extrajournalistic activities, the racket all-absorbing...
...ratification of the Treaty should be postponed . . . there will be projected into every Senatorial contest the bitter efforts of a single group of newspapers [Hearst] which is now devoting itself to the defeat of the Treaty. . . . The irresponsible misrepresentation, the spirit of international suspicion and ill-will, which thus far has marked the editorials of this group would be poured into every canvass. . . . This could have no other result than to breed unfounded suspicion and ill-will. It would not only tend to drag the Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which...