Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journalism's trade weekly, Editor & Publisher, explained that the publishers had been alarmed by "secret meetings of Canadian [newsprint] manufacturers with the Premiers of Ontario and Quebec for the purpose of arranging a production level and a standardized price...
...continued buying. The only thing that stood in the way was reason: long had speculators seemed to ignore reason. For the first three days, Panic held sway. Led by U. S. Steel, stocks dropped to new lows. Again there were tales of a "banking consortium" holding secret midnight meetings, tales of the "great bear pool...
Sharply the committee scrutinized Lobbyist Arnold's activities on the current tariff bill. Testimony indicated a broad streak of duplicity. Letters showed that while he was working with Southern Democrats for special protective rates, he was also passing along to the Republican Regulars secret information of the Democratic-Insurgent coalition against the measure. Once he wrote that he would "put courage into" President Hoover to make him "stand" for the House rates on sugar...
Senator Brookhart defended himself: "No man can invite me to a dinner where crime is in evidence and say to me that because of his confidence as a host I shall conceal the crime. . . . That is the thing that makes trouble in this country . . . these infernal secret societies in high society. ... I want to say to members of the Senate, GET OUT OF THOSE BOOZE PARTIES. You do not need those hip flasks to enable you to do your duty here...
...Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been kept secret, as is usual. If there were anyone in England with a grudge against the King, now was his chance...