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Word: secreting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full accounting of the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, to see if any financial commitments were implied by the President's program. Senator Lodge's move was followed by a declaration from Senator Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye, who announced: "I ... give notice of withdrawal from all executive [secret] committee meetings of the Military Affairs Committee . . . until such time as ... the record, devoid of any military secrets . . . shall be available to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senators in Distress | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...upholstery-cleaning business, the friend introduced him to Herman Petrillo. Mr. Petrillo had a better idea. He would give George Meyers some big money "-$500 real or $2.500 counterfeit"-if only he would see that one Ferdinand Alfonsi met an accidental death. Cleaner Meyers told his story to the Secret Service, was hired as an informer. Last week he told his findings in a Philadelphia court, where Mr. Petrillo and two women were on trial for running a racket, the blood temperature of which was record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Petrillo's Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Green-shirted Rumanian Fascists (Iron Guards) used to do their killings with bombs and rifles made in secret arsenals. Their organization outlawed, their top leaders shot, the Iron Guards were discovered last week to have been not only hatching new plots but making new weapons. When a German-owned factory near Bucharest was raided, it was found that under an army lieutenant a crew of workmen, chauffeurs and students was making flamethrowers that would burn a foe to a crisp at 100 yards. Green shirts said they had planned to take over the Government "even if we had to burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Flames for Rifles | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

DEATH PLAYS SOLITAIRE-R. L. Goldman- Coward-McCann ($2). News Publisher Asaph Clume and Reporter Rufus Reed again team up, crack the secret behind the shooting of a criminal lawyer. Tough, but not bogus tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...inspector-learned last week about. the crash of Imperial Airways' Bermuda-bound flying boat they kept to themselves. The Cavalier itself lay peacefully not far from the scandal-smeared hull of the steamer, Vestris (1928), 300 miles from where the Mono Castle burned (1934). But it was no secret that the Cavalier, like these ill-fated steamships, had been caught in circumstances for which it was unprepared and had muddled through pretty sloppily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Muddling | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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