Word: overtness
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...frontier, beat off a Swiss customs guard before he could summon aid, seized a Czech citizen named Hermann Weber, dragged him screaming into Germany. There have been a series of similar incidents. Switzerland's unvarying foreign policy (MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS) has kept all Swiss papers from any overt criticisms of the Hitler Government but last week even the staid, conservative La Suisse rapped...
...Right Cause." President Hoover replied in what amounted to his first overt campaign statement since his acceptance speech...
Mayor Walker had spent three weeks at Albany trying to convince Governor Roosevelt that he was innocent of the charges filed against him by Samuel Seabury. They were not accusations of overt graft and corruption which would bring a conviction in a criminal court and Governor Roosevelt was not trying them like a criminal case. Rather were they charges of indiscretion and bad judgment indicative of a public and private carelessness about money and men. Taken together they created the impression of wrong-doing but legal proof was lacking of specific violations of the law. The Mayor was left looking...
Harbin is in the Russian sphere of influence in Manchuria. It is the headquarters of the Soviet-dominated Chinese Eastern Railroad. Some 25,000 Russians, Red and White, live there. But last week Russia made no overt move to protect the city whose defense was left to spry little General Ting Chao. General Ting Chao fought a 17-hour battle which Harbin's shivering but fascinated inhabitants watched from their roofs. Possibly in an effort to embroil Russia. Ting Chao's artillery was posted squarely in front of Russian offices of the C. E. R. But Russia...
Last week, however, the Post took a more overt step than any of its expensive promotion, to bolster falling circulation. It cut the price of its 5? Saturday rotogravure edition...