Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist radio broadcast a statement that there could be no peace before the government had demonstrated its "sincerity" by handing over "war criminals" to the Communists: "Chiang Kai-shek is especially important. The said criminal has now fled and may very possibly go abroad to hide beneath the cloak of American and British imperialism. You must act swiftly to arrest this criminal." Chiang Kai-shek was staying in his native village of Fenghua, from which he had set out 43 years ago to fight for China's freedom...
...Century Sienese tempera of Saint Thomas the Apostle, believed the work of Simone Martini and valued at $3,000 to $5,000, had disappeared from the Museum's wall almost five years ago (TIME, April 3, 1944). The young saint in his fancy gold halo and blue-green cloak looked as serene as ever, though the panel had broken in two and a few flakes of paint had fallen...
...seems simple enough for the administration to set up one central collecting agency, and junk the host of regional depots that make the job of tracking down missing property worthy of cloak-and-dagger outfit. Such a move would not only be a blessing for the careless undergraduates, but sensible and efficient from an administrative point of view...
...recent, I wish to deny, categorically, membership in the League for Reaction, and participation in any sort of HYRC "cloak and dagger" activity for which the various extraordinary schemes are suggested...
Fisher also attacked the "Machiavellian atmosphere" of the HYRC. He referred to a "Cloak and Dagger Department" (headed by Arthur W. Bingham '51) which, he said, at various times had considered 1) wrecking the NSA, 2) packing the Student Council, 3) infiltrating into the Liberal Union, 4) smearing candidates as Communists, and 5) printing birth control leaflets and distributing them under the name of prominent NSA officers in order to cause dissension between those officers and the Catholic schools...