Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated legislation to take the 1930 census and to reapportion the House of Representatives; adopted (42 to 37) an amendment to put 100,000 temporary census employes under Civil Service. ¶ Barred press association newsgatherers from the Senate floor as part of its controversy with the press on secret sessions...
Newsmen and Senators have a joint technique about secret sessions. When the Senate bells jingle three times, Superintendent James D. Preston of the Senate Press Gallery shooes all correspondents out of the gallery, closes its big double doors, locks them with an immense key and, for good measure, props a swivel chair against them...
Followed a rapid drive through the streets to Chapultepec Castle. General Calles, still in his war clothes-a big felt hat and tan suede "windbreaker"-looked tired but happy. At Chapultepec Castle he remained in secret conference with the President for some time, then motored to his own home...
Shaken by their joint experience as jurymen in Poet Masters' earlier Domesday Book, seven representative men of Le Roy, Ill., resolve to confess the inmost secret of their lives. The confessions, mulled by the coroner, complicate his decision to marry Arielle, young, beautiful, mysterious. Her mystery resolves itself into insanity. The coroner devotes the rest of his life to guarding Arielle. Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth...
...years under the direction of Colonel Knox* whose chief problem was competition with the rapidly rising Dunlap hat. Whether because Robert Dunlap, liberal, kindly, used frequently to suspend production in Dunlap shops while he bought beer for the men and ice cream for the women, or because of a secret process by which Hatter Dunlap succeeded in turning out the blackest derbies ever known, the Dunlap hat eventually outsold the Knox in Manhattan. For many a year small hat-makers held up their spring lines until they could see and imitate the Dunlap derby and the Knox felt...