Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I nominate Mickey Mouse as the Man of the Year. He entertains us-his gayety is spontaneous, and his courage and stamina as a secret service agent in the Foreign Legion, as well as his more recent sucess in rounding up those ghost-smugglers single handed entitle him to lead the parade of achievers...
...Uruguayan press conference for newshawks, Latin & U. S., each of whom had spent the day under the surveillance of an individually assigned detective. Before the President's departure, the able Montevideo police chief sent a delegation aboard to pay tribute at the coffin of dead U. S. Secret Servant Gus Gennerich. Then, still smiling, Franklin Roosevelt sailed for home, having had, as Santiago, Chile's El Mercurio declared, "The greatest apotheosis of his career...
...Governor. In the winter of 1933 when the Roosevelts moved to Washington they got Gus a 60-day leave of absence so that he could technically complete 25 years on the force, retire on a $1,500-a-year pension. These qualifications satisfied, Pensioner Gus promptly joined the Secret Service...
...Marble Savings Bank's secret could not keep forever. Finally State's Attorney Asa Bloomer of Rutland heard of it. Last June he broke the case wide open by ordering the arrest of former Bookkeeper Cocklin for grand larceny making public the details of the fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise...
...average of once a month when he is in Washington, President Roosevelt spends Sunday morning at church. Accompanied by Secret Service men, he drives to St. Thomas' Episcopal Church at 18th & Church Streets, N. W. Entering at the side by a ramp and marquee especially installed for him, the President always occupies the same pew, shares it with the Secret Service men. For nearly four years they, and whoever else has happened to be with Mr. Roosevelt, have listened to sermons by Rev. Dr. Charles Ernest Smith who has been at St. Thomas' since 1902. This British-born...