Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabling from Berlin last week, the New York Times's Otto D. Tolischus estimated the present secret debt at between $8,000,000,000 and $10,000,000,000. Moreover, said Mr. Tolischus, "That debt is being increased through so many varied channels that the [German] Government itself is losing track of them, and is able to give only estimates, which make German finance a blacker art than ever...
...bonds in settlement of past-due interest, SEC finally gave up. It allowed the registration to become effective but not without a bold attempt to supply on its own hook some of the missing information it deemed vital to investors, particularly a hint as to the Reich's "secret debt...
With magnificent effrontery, Germany maintains that it has no secret debt at all. It rationalizes this claim by the simple expedient of ignoring the incalculable amounts of short-term tax-anticipation certificates, "labor creation bills," and similar inflationary paper it has pumped into the credit system. According to the Reich, this paper is not debt until it becomes due, a contention which would have a counterpart in the U. S. if WPA workers were paid in baby Government Bonds which were excluded from the national debt until they matured. SEC pointed out that by the middle of 1935 this...
...Annunzio solemnly informed General Achille Starace, Fascist party secretary general, that he was making "final tests" on a powerful chemical of his own devising so that he could dissolve himself. Declaimed the author of A Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages from the Secret Book of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Attempter of Death: "I am an old man and sick, so I am going to hasten my end . . . disdaining to agonize between bed sheets." Amended the 74-year-old eccentric's long-time friend Luisa Bacarra: "He was speaking in rhetorical rather than literal...
...STORY OF SECRET SERVICE-Richard Wilmer Rowan-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Fat (720-page), fascinating florilegium of spies, real and apparent, "going up and down the backstairs of history" since Moses' day; busiest, softest footsteps, says Spy-Catcher Rowan, were England...