Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outset of the War. We were pro-Ally by inheritance, by instinct, by opinion." But no evidence was adduced last week that the House of Morgan, for all its pro-Ally, sympathies, created the Allied demand for U. S. goods. And if J. P. Morgan & Co. indulged in secret skulduggery to steam up the U. S. for war, the Senate Committee had yet to make it a part of its record...
Dynamic forces are at work. The recent rioting of Alpine troops is a straw in the wind. The regular army never made a secret of the fact that it did not relish its task. More quiet cursing and derogation of Mussolini is heard in the streets of Rome, Milan and Salerno. The troops in the field are spread out, discontented, badly supported by communications, and strategically exposed to serious defeats. Any spark from a number of sources may kindle the flame, and there are as many gusts of sentiment ready to nourish...
...willing to listen to "The Man" Bilbo expatiate on his "Dream House" in Mississippi. With the introduction of just one bill, the Pittman Neutrality measure, the Senate decorously ended its first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind the lectern of the Speaker's rostrum. Police and Secret Servants had checked " double-checked invitations and guests as they had arrived. Mrs. Roosevelt and the Boettigers were snug in the executive gallery. The diplomatic corps was notably minus the Japanese and Italian envoys...
...conferred with Britain's King-Emperor last week, has two main and immediate objects: 1) to dissuade Britain from supporting oil sanctions which he believes would ignite a European war to the particular disadvantage of Belgium; 2) to make sure that Belgium is a party to any further secret British-German dickering which might weaken still more the Treaty of Versailles and imperil Belgium further...
...only King Leopold but also Professor Paul van Zeeland, the "New Deal'' devaluationist Premier of Belgium, today frankly regard everything else as secondary to the menace of a Germany which is putting over one secret deal after another with Britain, the first to tear up the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24), the second to tear up the air armament clauses (TIME, Jan. 6), and perhaps others suspected in Belgium but as yet undisclosed. Since King Leopold's sister is the Crown Princess of Italy, family ties make His Majesty a pleader...