Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April was at hand and the trout-hunter's mission was much more important than might have been suspected. Because he was Lawrence Richey, erstwhile of the U. S. Secret Service, lately raised to the estate of $10,000-per-year secretary to the President of the U.S. And he was looking for places where President Hoover might enjoy "the rejoicing and gladness" of not having "to decide a blanked thing until next week," as he (Herbert Hoover) once...
...safety, found her lithe and vivacious, befriended her. She said her name was Letitia Ernestine Brown. For her he bought a small house in Freeport, L. I., where, she said, he solemnly took her hand, declared himself her husband and her his wife. On her he settled a secret fund of $250,000. About Freeport the two were known as Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown. Six months of each year Mr. Curtis traveled alone in Europe. Some of the money which he gave her she spent upon a Negro man whose wife threatened court action unless much more money...
...Berlin florid Minister of Finance Rudolph Hilferding hastily assembled an informal and secret conference of richest Junkers and tycoons to confer with the tall, imperious president of the Reichsbank when he arrived. In the Fatherland, where such an assemblage represents the colossal vested interests of a score of banking and industrial trusts, it does not take long to sound out the opinions of ''big business." Therefore after only the briefest conference, "Iron Man" Hjalmar Schacht boarded the Nord Express for Paris, appearing to be, as usual, somewhat less gracious and communicative than a snapping turtle...
Since all sessions of the second Dawes Committee are secret−with no minutes or stenographic notes kept−the word of Germany is presumably as good as that of any other great power. "Believe...
Grave issues of state and politics sharply focused world interest, last week, on Edward of Wales and on the leaders of Great Britain's three political parties. The secret had leaked out−after months of official concealment−that President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State has been challenging the authority of the Crown Council as at present constituted. All ordinary powers of the King-Emperor were signed over by stricken George V (TIME, Dec. 17), to this Council, which consists of the Prime Minister, Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of York...