Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nothing pleases my husband more, in Hyde Park or Warm Springs," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt in her column My Day last week, "than to lose the Secret Service car which always follows him when he drives his own little car. It must be even more fun to be able to do it m a ship...
...Sewanna's wake trailed the destroyer Hopkins, for Secret Service and wireless men; the Presidential yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral...
...cash advance, a salary as commander in the Japanese Navy. An unidentified Japanese opened negotiations with him, required evidence of his qualifications for the job. From the Navy Department Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked it with a more recent edition belonging to a Navy Department friend. He insisted he had never received a cent for any of this material, nor had he obtained the employment he sought. Protested this onetime Naval officer: "Whatever I gave...
...Secretary of State Hull said that all he knew about the matter was what he had read in the newspapers. Purred Navy Minister Osami Nagano in Tokyo: "In America, as in other countries, there are a few worthless individuals who try to obtain money from foreigners for supposedly valuable secret information, but we can't believe any Japanese officer attempted to use such persons...
...pastors of the German Evangelical Protestant Church daringly protested against the entire credo and technique of the National Socialist Party. This remarkable document, phrased with an air of winning deference, indicted: 1) Nazi concentration camps; 2) the Nazi espionage system within the country; 3 ) the extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school children in "the old German paganism"; 7) the Nazi glorification of the Aryan race; 8) antiSemitism; 9) the basic Nazi doctrine of "nationalist utilitarianism" by which...