Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the proud White House police and Secret Service have been baffled by a form of crime they could not solve: minor robberies in the Roosevelt household. Missing were money, dresses, coats, lamps, pieces of linoleum. Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, Clerks Grace Tully and Paula Larabee, Chief Messenger Joseph Sheehan were victims. As a final result, $200 disappeared from the White House police fund...
From the Rialto Theatre, where they are holding a convention, through Jackson Square to the spearheaded front fence of the White House, marched a mixed delegation of the Youth Committee Against War. Not waiting for police or Secret Service men to ask their business, or pausing to explain just what parts of President Roosevelt's program they considered provocative, the young men & women produced from their persons seven large cardboard placards which, hung in a row on the fence (see cut), spelled...
...Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India and Burma announced that the Government has now acquired a huge secret store of raw materials as a war preparedness measure, in addition to the stocks of wheat, sugar and whale oil disclosed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon three weeks ago. "We do a great many things unknown to the public," confided the Marquess to his peers...
...grandfather an immigrant Pole, his mother rumored to have been a German, Codreanu first acquired political importance by shooting dead Prefect Manciu of Jassy, Rumania's university town, who had arrested students for anti-Semitic outrages. Results for him: a trial, acquittal, increased popularity, formation of the secret terrorist society "The League of the Archangel Michael," forerunner of the Iron Guard and the All-for-the-Fatherland Party...
...valuable new secret about ordinary lead, which has been kept from scientists by a peculiar feature, is that the relative proportions of the isotopes of this metal vary from sample to sample. Isotopes are atoms of the same element which differ in weight...