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There seemed to be a covert stinger in a speech delivered last week before the Chicago Association of Commerce by Karl August Bickel, president of the United Press. Said...
Lucient Saint, ruthless French Resident General of Tunis, was transferred, last week, to be Resident General of French Morocco, amid covert Tunisian glee...
...among all the Greek sponge-divers of Tarpon Springs last week, jovial young Demosthenes Kananis, who has been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the girls admired his broad shoulders and deep chest, remembering how, with a shout, he had slipped up from the deeps of Spring Bayou, holding high in his hand the dripping bronze cross...
Ostensibly the subject of the notes was limitation of naval and military armament. Their covert purpose to enhance the potency of the British Navy was unmasked by the Hearst Press, sternly denounced by President Calvin Coolidge and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and is now entirely defunct. (TIME, Oct. 29). But the military purpose of the notes remains. Upon it last week interest focused. Revealed was the price exacted by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before he would consent to support against U. S. opposition the naval projects of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The French price, high, was that...
...activities of the U. S. public utilities-the "Power Trust"-private interests opposing the Government's entry to the electricity industry. So widespread, so penetrating, so energetic, so determined, so covert has been the propaganda of these interests that, as it is exposed bit by bit by the Federal Trade Commission's current investigation, the issue between California and Arizona has been twisted from its cultural base...