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...During a cloak-and-dagger TV play in Britain, a solemn voice announced to televiewers: "Should you be threatened, ring the secret number Whitehall 5422, give the code number 1785, then the code word 'curtain raiser,' and you will be put straight through to the Prime Minister!" Delighted to hear such hush-hush information, hundreds rushed to their telephones to pass the time of day with Sir Anthony Eden, succeeded only in clogging the Cabinet Office's tie line to 10 Downing Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...first sign was the revocation of eleven o'clock parietal regulations for those Saturdays on which Harvard played football at home. Veiling the ban under the cloak of decency, the Masters claimed the eviction notices would prevent drunkenness and vice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Curfew Conspiracy | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

...motives at the time ("When I saw he had this handful of money, there was penalty flags down all over the field for me"), but had finally accepted the donation. Explained Wishart: "I didn't think he could be a lobbyist. He kind of had a cloak-and-dagger attitude. It seemed to me that the poor devil had $2,500 he was trying to do anything to get somebody to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Eyes on the Lobbies | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...would like to take this opportunity to denounce the attempts being made by these groups, and by the insidious dissident faction of the society led by Jay Murley and his New True Conservative Legion, who are trying to subvert the true purposes of the organization under a cloak of "humorous crockery." The Reactionary Society is firmly committed to a belief of freedom of the personal will which can only be obtained through a strong reactionary, conservative movement. Liberal groups which parade under conservative guise and with so-called conservative leaders, like the Harvard New Conservative Club led by William Brady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET THERE BE LIGHT | 1/17/1956 | See Source »

...were concerned. He has violated the code of the gentleman and of the truth-seeking scholar. He has not repented. His ethical perceptions are not sensitive. He does not recognize the enormity of the thing that he did. The University has violated sound principles in giving him the cloak of its prestige. Robert H. Montgomery, LL.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEGLECT OF PRINCIPLE | 1/11/1956 | See Source »

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