Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where Luer was kept...
When last week's nudity rumpus cast general suspicion on all the Fair's rowdy, stay-up-late activity, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, the hard-bitten onetime soldier whom the Brothers Dawes made the Fair's general manager (TIME, May 22), enacted a 1:30 curfew. On none of the three following nights was any patron of the hot spots evicted before 3 a. m.. The concessionaires complained that the only chance they had to make hay was while the stars shone. To them, President Rufus Cutler Dawes replied...
...readers of Without Music should be expected to echo the comment of Robert Benchley in his introduction: ". . . It makes me feel better about having laughed so loud at Dwight Fiske in night clubs. I always have had a suspicion that I was drunk. Now I know that I was merely appreciative...
Last week the business conduct committee of the Chicago Board of Trade sent a questionnaire to brokers, asking for lists of all open accounts in rye of over 100,000 bu. Reason: suspicion of an attempted corner in rye. Grainmen scouted the idea of even a technical corner, but none of them denied that a major operation in the rye market had by last week boosted the price of that grain from 48? to over...
...announced that Dr. Howard Lee McBain, dean of the faculty of Political Science at Columbia University (whence have come so many Roosevelt experts), had been invited to Cuba to redraft Cuba's election laws, because "the 1934 Presidential election must be entirely beyond suspicion...