Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily News's agitation last year helped St. Paul elect a reform Mayor who appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety Henry Edward ("Ned") Warren, a conscientious citizen who came fresh to politics from his automobile salesroom. Commissioner Warren wanted to import Alexander Jamie of Chicago's old "Secret Six" organization as police chief. In spite of Jamie's record as a onetime Federal sleuth who gave criminal Chicago a wash behind the ears, St. Paul's city fathers balked at bringing in an outsider. So Commissioner Warren appointed as St. Paul's Chief of Police...
...later the vigilant Daily News did the next best thing to bringing in Alexander Jamie. Editor Kahn sent to Chicago for Jamie's son Wallace, a 27-year-old graduate of University of Chicago's School of Police Administration. Together Messrs, Warren, Kahn and Jamie plotted a secret investigation of the St. Paul police department. In a secluded room at police headquarters an elaborate wiretapping apparatus was set up. Every telephone call in & out of headquarters was recorded on a phonograph, which last week yielded an impressive symphony of corruption...
...Eden thus referred to the fact that His Majesty's Government, tempted by Adolph Hitler's offer to limit his navy forever to 35% of theirs, not only gave Germany a blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24) but made a further and secret agreement with the Reich. This, made by the British Admiralty, was concealed until last week from the British Foreign Office, a procedure almost unprecedented. It was forced into the open after Premier Laval asked to see Britain's copy of Germany's new Naval building plans and was readily promised them...
...times when the poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...
Meantime J. Edward Jones, whose first name is a trade secret, thought he would try to register some of his oil royalty trust certificates even if he could not sell them. Charging that the application contained "untrue statements of material facts," SEC subpoenaed Mr. Jones to appear for a hearing last week. Mr. Jones sent his lawyer. The Commission refused to listen to that gentleman until he asked if he could withdraw the application. Uprose SECounsel John J. Burns to bellow: "You can't go up under the gun of a stop order and then seek to avoid...