Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depths of the Everglades last fortnight were secret rejoicings. In many a primitive Indian village, protected from the inquisitive white man by evil-smelling swamps, warriors and squaws grunted their satisfaction at the news that, after a 100 years of botheration, the U. S. was at last to let them alone in their dank solitude...
...Bold Scot MacDonald who suddenly changed front, last week, ordered an airplane and flew from Lossiemouth to Edinburgh, where strike conciliation efforts were in progress. Arbitration seemed overnight to have become his goal. After a morning of high pressure secret conferences with cotton folk the "Flying Scot" hinted to correspondents that a basis of arbitration had been laid, would divulge no detail...
...months, like bad-tempered mice before a large and dignified cat, Linz Socialists have been watching Prince Ernst, eager to catch him in a definitely illegal action. Weeks ago they complained that Prince Ernst was not only commandant of the Upper Austrian Heimwehr, Austria's secret reactionary military organization, but had been equipping Heimwehr troops at his own expense, drilling them on the grounds of his castle, just as his ancestors drilled and equipped their henchmen. Complacent Linz police saw no reason to interfere. Prince Ernst might be drilling, they said, but he was breaking...
Committeeman Couzens. Other troubles beset the Republican majority of the Finance Committee in framing their tariff bill. Chief among these was the violation of their shut-mouth rule by James Couzens, a committee member. The committee's doings, the ups and downs of rates, were supposed to be secret, but when high-protectionist Senators commenced to "leak to interested business men, Senator Couzens, as independent as he is rich, could see no reason why he should not likewise tell his constituents what he was doing...
...Equity closed shop in Hollywood (TIME, July 8, Aug. 5). Six cinemactors, with Equity approval, met with delegates of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, hitherto haughtily oblivious of Equity demands. The actors: Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edmund Lowe, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Ralph Forbes. Though the meetings were secret, observers were cheered by signs of arbitration after weeks of feverish, noisy invective...