Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military secrets are really kept secret in peacetime but none is likely to be revealed at a public parade witnessed by foreign military attachés and foreign correspondents. Displayed for the first time in public, however, were nine heavy tanks of new design, from 18 to 25 tons in weight, varying widely in traction and armament. Still lighter than the 50-ton tanks used by Russians and French in Leftist Spain, heavier than the Italian and German affairs of about ten tons used in Rightist Spain, these new experimental tanks were apparently designed to meet the military criticism that...
...investigate his $200-per-month pension plan, in May 1936-seemed almost eager to get behind bars. He was planning, he said, to work on his autobiography during his incarceration. He scoffed at efforts on the part of Senator William G. McAdoo, who in the past had made no secret of his scorn of Planner Townsend, to get him pardoned...
...bullet-riddled body of Ignace Reiss, a Soviet secret agent who renounced Stalinism, was found in a ditch outside Lausanne, Switzerland, seven months...
...only Trotsky, but also Mexico's President Lázaro Cárdenas is convinced that Stalin's secret agents are bent on the Great Exile's assassination. Cárdenas' contribution to the Trotskyist cause is a guard of policemen who day & night patrol with fixed bayonets around Trotsky's home in the Coyoacán suburb of Mexico's capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands...
...months ago outrage was running high among New York art lovers. They felt and said that the New York World's Fair Corporation had scandalized their name by failing to provide space for an art exhibition at the Fair (TIME, Feb.7). Quickly yanked aloft into secret scurryings at the Fair's Empire State Building headquarters, this controversy made no further news until last week. Then, in a magnanimous backtrak, President Grover Whalen of the Fair Corporation announced plans for a great exhibition of contemporary U.S. art, to be housed in a $300,000 building once intended...