Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President called the Commissioners before him and said, I have secret service officials at my command. If they discover something here in connection with the violation df the Prohibition law, before you discover...
Speeches at the luncheon were ostentatiously decreed "secret"' by M. Briand, perhaps to heighten press curiosity. Copious "leaks" revealed however that statesmen-guests representing Belgium, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania ?the allies of France?said that they would favor establishment of a ''United States of Europe" in the form of a federation both political and economic. The Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize...
...Nationalist). Since the elections of last year the Government has had only the barest majority. Every vote has been vital. As a matter of course Nationalist Yachtsman Marks has voted with his party leader, Nationalist Bruce. But recently there have been ominous rumors that he had entered into a secret understanding with the Prime Minister's bitterest personal enemy, a third Nationalist, onetime (1915-23) Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
...history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the eight Cabinet ministries he previously held -retaining only the portfolio of Interior and of course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme Chancellor of this dual realm; 2) That he was preparing to proclaim Italy an empire and would have bandy-legged little King Vittorio Emanuele crowned Emperor by His Holiness Pope Pius XI; 3) That he planned, perhaps...
...speedy Ford sedan was the clue that led to the arrest of 40 people in North Germany last week, reawakening German interest in the notorious Organization Konsul, bloodthirsty Nationalist secret society which was responsible for the assassinations of onetime Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger in 1921 and Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau...