Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelations of intimacy between Philadelphia's underworld and its police force (TIME, Oct. 8) seemed to demand some official decapitations. Several police officers, obviously guilty, were removed, disgraced. Senator-suspect Vare, boss of the city, announced that the Director of Public Safety, Harry C. Davis, his friend for 40 years, was above it all, irreproachable. The grand jury hoped and trusted this was so, but continued its inquiry. Things were looking up for Director Davis. Nevertheless, one day last week, Mayor Harry Arista Mackey bustled into the mayoral office and, without pausing to remove his overcoat, dictated a letter...
...quantities to discriminate between public works needed now, public works needed tomorrow, and public works which will never be needed at all. The last category -joy of the pork barrel experts, sorrow of the tax-payer-is what will be watched out against by hard-headed businessmen who may suspect the job reserve idea of being "utopian...
...forever reverberating in the cafes and studios of France. But these hallelujahs, often fanatical in intensity, are usually ignored by bland, potent French critics. These priests of the Louvre are too wise to ballyhoo any skyrocketing dauber who happens to be the vogue. But occasionally the critical pundits suspect a novice of immortality. When this happens they have a routine gesture of generosity. They hang his pictures in the Luxembourg. For a minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands see them, thousands talk about them, the pundits study them. Only the work of genius can survive this...
...Stitch" McCarthy, the so-called Mayor of Chinatown, Manhattan. Had they happened first upon anyone of these, the detectives might have remained baffled; but instead, after many sleuthing trips across the Atlantic, during which he had amused them with songs and served them with refreshments, they had come to suspect the Chief Steward of the Berengaria, William Ballyn...
Significantly enough the more urban and proletarian members of the Communist Party dominated by Dictator Josef Stalin suspect that the Son-of-Ivan does not even now fully realize what the class struggle is all about. They are bent upon feverish proletarianization and industrialization of all Russians-including peasants and Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer...