Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Key Pittman, (D., Nev.), chairman of the influential Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation which would enable the United States to lead a gigantic armament program in the Western Hemisphere by permitting sale of secret Army and Navy equipment to Latin American Nations...
Said Spokesman La Follette: "Americans have not forgotten the steps that made a declaration of war inevitable in 1917. War breaks out in foreign lands. The Executive decides to help one side. The nation becomes involved in secret commitments and breaches of neutrality. Then there are 'episodes' and excuses for taking sides further. . . . When it is too late to be neutral, Congress is asked to rubber stamp a declaration of war, and the people are lured by fancy slogans about fighting to end all war and save democracy. After the supreme sacrifice is made, democracy is destroyed...
Naturally this shift was not accomplished without strife in the Army. No secret in Washington is the fact that ever since able little Oscar Westover crashed to his death last year (TIME, Oct. 3), his successor has had to wage a friendly struggle with Chief of Staff Malin Craig...
...1920s his policies grew ridiculous. He published documents charging bribery of Senators by Mexico, saw them exposed as forgeries. He was expelled from France after engineering the theft of a secret Anglo-French naval pact. He established himself as No. i exponent of the Red Scare...