Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service, and Army authorities doubted that...
...chance to try it. It was to lure Colonel Henry W. T. Eglin from his post with the 62nd Coast Artillery at Fort Totten, N. Y. to a Manhattan hotel, where he would have been induced, either by plump Fraulein Hofmann or by violence, to surrender certain "secret mobilization plans...
...existence of [Navy Department] reports on the vulnerability of an attacking fleet is not denied. I have been told that I could see the reports if I would keep them secret. . . . Obviously the secret is one that is being kept from the American people. . . . The same amount of money now being sought for big battleships, invested in pursuit planes and bombers, would make the United States invulnerable. If that is not true, let it be proved untrue...
...attacks on the battleship as a weapon is simply that they are not true. Day after Mr. Maverick dropped his bomb, a retort was fired by Franklin Roosevelt, a lover, like his top admirals, of big ships. He told a press conference that he had been studying Naval reports, secret and otherwise since 1913, and that, if he had concluded therefrom that battleships were obsolete, he would not have recommended building new ones. When torpedo boats were invented and again with the development of undersea and aerial weapons, the President said, amateur strategists had declared that battleships were done...
First act of a state turned authoritarian is to get itself democratically approved. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin have all "gone to the polls," and those dictators at least retained the form of a secret, written ballot. Last week Europe's newest dictator, Carol von Hohenzollorn, "royal dictator" of Rumania, supplied the newest twist to the technique. He sent his 4,000,000-odd voters to the polls to register orally their support of his three-week-old regime. Names of those voting against the Government were recorded by election managers. When the tabulations were in, only 5,413 had dared...