Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week with much fanfare Mr. Cahill began presenting to a secret Federal Grand Jury indictment evidence from a 500,000-page "encyclopedia of crime" compiled by the F. B. I. over the past two years. Some illuminating chapters in this opus were supplied by porky, paretic "Scarface Al" Capone, who gets out of the Federal Correctional Institution on Terminal Island (Los Angeles) next November. Mr. Cahill's tactics, under orders from Mr. Murphy, were to go after all relatives, friends and business acquaintances, past & present, of Lepke, the Leopard, to make the U. S. too hot to harbor...
...Secret of the Wizard of Oz is that there is no such person: there is only Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), a kindly, bungling old carnival seer. But the resourceful Professor has a bit of homely chicanery for each of his applicants, gives them all what they desire. No children's tale is Hollywood's Wizard of Oz. Lavish in sets, adult in humor, it is a Broadway spectacle translated into make-believe. Most of its entertainment comes from the polished work (aided by Jack Dawn's expert makeup) of seasoned Troupers Lahr, Bolger and Haley...
...secret of Gamelin's military success lay largely in his old mapmaker's and landscapist's instinct for geography. Not only was he able to take the maximum advantage of terrain so as to conserve manpower, but his shrewd disposition of fire power constantly enhanced the offensive quality of his command. His many citations praised his "highest qualities of method and of inspection" and his ability to carry his objectives "in the course of a general offensive at the cost of minimum losses." The French soldier did not like him less for that and the present French...
...secret has it been that Minneapolis' Jones family was anxious to sell the thinning Journal. Nor has it been a secret that Des Moines' Cowles family, which had bought the Star in 1935 (and done well with it), has wanted a firmer foothold in Minneapolis. Last week's sale price, a reputed $2,250,000-$2,500,000, left Minneapolis (pop. 464,356) with only two daily newspapers: the all-day Tribune (circulation 148,017) and the evening Star-Journal, whose circulation will be around...
Last month, the New York Times's scholarly Berlin correspondent, Otto D. Tolischus, cabled home a learned, heavily statisticized summary of an official survey of Nazi economics. Appended to his cable was a casual last paragraph which remarked that unofficial estimates placed Germany's secret debt at between 20-25,000,000,000 marks, and her total public debt at upward of 64,000,000,000 marks ($25,683,200,000). Last week SEC embarrassed the Nazi Government by asking it to tell all about its hush-hush bookkeeping...