Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversy moderately scandalous for them, but they handled it with their usual decorum and historical perspective. It was started by George L. Massy who wrote from Folkestone in Kent that he was "credibly informed that the reason some ladies stain their finger nails is in order to conceal traces of black blood, otherwise discernible there. Perhaps the knowledge of this may induce ladies not having black blood to refrain from the unsightly and unpleasing habit. It is understood that this habit arose in America where color lines are strictly drawn and traces of black blood must be concealed if possible...
...recalled from his post as French Ambassador at Washington to become Finance Minister under Premier Chautemps, had arrived. Bonnet expressed strong opposition last year to Blum's financial policies, and the state of affairs he discovered on striding into the Finance Ministry was not one he cared to conceal. "Inflation, devaluation and new taxes!" snorted the new Finance Minister at his first meeting with the Senate Finance Committee. "Such, messieurs, are the logical conclusions I cannot avoid...
...liberal wing of politics, a son of wealth has to be endowed with a considerable fund of convictions. George Earle's convictions on civil liberty, against tyranny of any kind, were demonstrated during his two years as Minister to Austria. There he was so little able to conceal his dislike of Hitlerism that Nazis made threats to blow up the U. S. legation. A dictatorship of the proletariat is equally abhorrent to him and his sympathies were with the late Chancellor Dollfuss, an idol of his even when Dollfuss spilled buckets of blood in putting down the Socialist revolution...
...effort was made to conceal the fact that this mass outing had any other than one principal purpose: to bring back to Washington a Party more united in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt. For by last week the President himself had registered the fact which observers had noted: that although he has not quarreled with his Party leaders, a rift has opened between them. First major cause of that rift was his Supreme Court enlargement proposal, which many did not like. Last week Washington was still shaking its head over the sharp words of the report with which the majority...
...Starnes, flood control bloc leader, let it be known that he had "positive assurance" that there would be flood control pork, earmarking or no earmarking. New York's Alfred Beiter declared the Public Works bloc had done "better than we bargained for." Texas' Marvin Jones did not conceal his opinion that he would get much more than he had asked for his drought control. Only Oklahoma's Wilburn Cartwright, who wanted his pork in the form of road construction, was still fighting for his amendment...