Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sagging margin account. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court last week heard the charge against Vitale, listened to his defense that the Rothstein loan was "a pure matter of business," found him guilty of conduct tending to "bring his court into public disrepute and suspicion, and undermine the integrity of justice...
When Traveler LoBagola, n, returned home, he was received but with suspicion. For transgressing a taboo (insolence to his elder brother) he was beaten on the soles of his feet by seven people, considered himself lucky to escape so lightly. Then after 14 months' preparation he was married to six girls at once. But Gooma, his favorite bride, broke a terrible taboo at' the wedding: embraced him in public. She was unsexed, had her left breast cut off, was sent to the King's bodyguard of Amazons. By his other wives LoBagola became the father...
Senators, Wet and Dry, were perturbed, for different reasons, at these developments. Their suspicion grew that perhaps these S. O. B. arrests were in some dark manner a veiled retort by President Hoover or his subordinates to senatorial criticism of the uncertain Hoover handling of Prohibition enforcement. They vowed they would not be intimidated by fear of exposure as Dry drinkers. Exclaimed Washington's Dry Senator Jones, author of the Five & Ten Law: "Certainly we ought to know where they [the 'loggers] were going in the office building." Senate Leader Watson spoke about "not guarding the morals...
...With particular suspicion do they view Morgan, banker of Great Britain during the War, who has his London house in Grosvenor Square and his English country seat, Wall Hall, at Watford. What is more natural, they think, than . . . that the Morgan group, with its vast investments in British shipping held in vassalage to the British Government, should favor American naval surrender, perpetuating British mastery of the seas...
This latest discovery in the field of animal sociology may also prove a clue to the mysterious silence which has surrounded the University's attitude on the question of keeping the laboratories open after hours. Such a suspicion may be totally unjustified, but if professors in the departments of science are carrying on nefarious and inhumane experiments after dark behind the closed doers of Harvard laboratories, and unfortunately this seems to be the only logical explanation for such a silence, the evil should be exposed and uprooted at once, before it assumes major proportions and jeopardizes the safety of belated...