Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular attendant at Cabinet meetings, by the courtesy of President Hoover, is Vice President Charles Curtis. At last week's gathering he might well have eyed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown with speculation if not suspicion. Was " General" Brown trying to get the Vice-Presidency away from him in 1932? Mr. Curtis wondered. Were " General" Brown's friends already working to this end? Mr. Curtis had heard as much. Did President Hoover, as a candidate for renomination, favor such a shift of running mates? Mr. Curtis wished he knew...
What had happened meanwhile in London was a trifle less dramatic than strangling wolves. Ever since Il Duce rose swashbuckling to power, flames of suspicion have been darting higher each year between France and Italy. Actual volcanic eruption was far off last week. In London all that Signor Grandi actually did was first to have high words with British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson in private, then to send a note around to the hotel of Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
...King's Bench awarded United Diamonds ?325,000 plus ?25,000 cost. Although the fraud charge was withdrawn, awarding of the sum to United Diamonds was tantamount to admitting that fraud did exist. It could not cheer Solomon Joel to believe that the British Government harbored such a suspicion and was furthermore quite prepared to act upon...
...America disliked the Chamberlain method because it had the appearance of England and France presenting her with a fait accompli. When the present conference opened, exactly the same suspicion oppressed France. The result has been quite fatal. The conference has been a tragedy of mismanagement...
From first hand evidence of Prohibition in the colleges it was to be expected that the vast majority of the 24,000 students voting would oppose the present laws in theory as well as in practice. But the vote goes further than confirming this suspicion. It turns its attention to the men who do not drink and proves very positively that it is not respect for the law but personal taste that guides them. In this aspect the poll brings the weight of fact to the old contention that legislation is without effect in such moral and personal issues...