Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memphis last week, Secret Service agents held a 35-year-old salesman named Keith H. Rapp for sending the President a letter saying: "I have an overwhelming urge to kill...
...single day, plus correspondingly gigantic purchases of sugar and whale oil. (The British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against immediate attack -i.e., for war (see p. 75). They have stocked their grocery shelves with enough edibles to feed British Islanders, according to Sir John, "during the early months of an emergency...
...private, Moscow observers noted that scarcely one year has passed since the Dictator began the most spectacular purge that ever hit an army, navy, air force. Last week it was possible to reconstruct from numberless small items in the Russian official press a fairly accurate picture of the secret May-to-May military purge which is not over...
...Savarona's owner remained a secret almost until her launching in 1931. She had been ordered simply by the ''Savarona Ship Corporation" of New York, and it was only later discovered that she was the property of Mrs. Emily Roebling Cadwalader, Philadelphia socialite. The ship's incorporation was publicized last year when the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue objected to income tax deductions made by Mrs. Cadwalader and Husband Richard M. Cadwalader Jr. in their 1932 returns. It was then revealed that travel-loving Mrs. Cadwalader had sold to her attorney 400 ship shares...
Liston Oak and Harry Milton, U. S. citizens who have fought for Leftist Spain and returned to the U. S., avowed in Manhattan last week their belief that "The Mink" functioned for months in Barcelona as its most dread Stalin Secret Political Police agent...