Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called Assistant Secretary Herbert Gaston: to coordinate the activities of Treasury's 10,578 Coast Guardsmen, 750 Customs agents, 250 Secret Service men, 250 income-tax inspectors, 1,250 alcohol inspectors. Tall, worn Mr. Gaston is an ex-newspaperman who lost out at 50 (when the old New York World expired), came back as Henry Morgenthau's trusted man Friday. Because he clamped down on departmental publicity in 1933, he rates as a stuffed shirt in the ribald, nude-daubed Treasury press room. But columnists and other "think piece" composers who value the long view applaud his emergence...
...situation was the reverse. Great Britain came out of World War I with a group of battle-scarred veterans of propaganda and a world-wide reputation for amazing cleverness in molding public opinion. For many a post-War year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...
...Duke of Windsor, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. King George VI sent a personal emissary to Cannes to invite him and the woman he thought worth a throne to come home, sent a destroyer to a secret Channel port to fetch him. The Duke & Duchess of Kent offered him their town house. But this did not mean that the royal family planned to take the unroyal Duchess to its bosom...
...France, carrying 1,777 passengers (400 more than her normal capacity), docked safe & sound after following a secret course with portholes blackened and blue bulbs burning dimly on deck. Her officers denied, her jittery passengers swore that they had spotted German U-boats. Café Socialite Grand Duchess Marie, delighted to be alive, took up a purse of $2,500 for the crew...
Last year Irving Air Chute had net sales of $1,928,400 (retail cost of parachutes: $180 to $300) and netted $398,321. After that record year's business it still had a record backlog of $1,000,000 in unfilled orders. Last week its backlog was a secret but the litter of cablegrams and war orders on the desk of its pink-cheeked, spectacled President George Waite was evidence that last year's sales and Jan. 1's backlog were marks that had long since been erased by the incoming tide...