Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Wayne Bidwell Wheeler warned the Drys that what little enforcement they had secured from the Treasury would disappear entirely if Attorney General Daugherty got his untrustworthy hands on Prohibition. When Harlan Fiske Stone became Attorney General, the Drys viewed him too, for all his legal merits, with suspicion. He was reckoned a New York liberal, and New York liberals were not known to favor Prohibition. Next in office as Attorney General was John Garibaldi Sargent. Over the radio he made enforcement speeches satisfactory to the Drys, but he seemed too slow, too lumbering as a practical law enforcer...
...Brien was informed from Washington that the $1,000 order would not count in his year's business. Postmasters were warned that those who induce stamp purchases "for the purpose of increasing their pay or affecting the allowance of facilities at their office" were open to suspicion...
...revenue law, already complex beyond ordinary comprehension; 2) overpayments due to miscalculation by honest taxpayers. According to the Treasury, a vast majority of taxpayers figure and pay their taxes on the safe side, trusting the Treasury to return the change rather than inviting the Treasury's suspicion of them as tax-dodgers...
...instrument, starved, committed civil murder, found buried treasure, engaged in unnatural vice, slept with a prostitute, or seen a corpse that has died a natural death. On the other hand, I have ridden on a locomotive, won a prize at the Olympic games . . . been examined by the police on suspicion of attempted murder . . . had a statue of myself erected in my lifetime in a London park, and learned to tell the truth - nearly...
...also indicated by the appointment of Mr. Whiteside It is significant that his selection brings to Harvard a coach who can hardly be suspected of being under the thumb of alumni influence. It should be possible to keep the new slate of Harvard rowing clean of any such suspicion; and when this hope becomes an actuality, the outburst of traditional Bulletin patriotism will be accepted as perfectly justified...