Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice is not the only Federal agency that can catch lawbreakers. Pondered since last summer, the drive had been actively planned for a fortnight. One day last week the Treasury struck with the full force of its 11,517 Alcohol Tax, Narcotics, Customs, Internal Revenue Bureau Intelligence Section, Secret Service and Coast Guard agents. Some raids were made on leads which the Treasury had long been working up, others at random on known criminal hangouts...
Acting on secret orders from the little braun haus in Munich, the Herr Colonel stationed one of his most trustworthy minions in the Memorial Church, not to get religion, but to prevent rascals from removing the swastika from the tablet...
...giving Generalissimo Chiang so much trouble that he placed himself at the head of forces rushing to avenge the murder of an Australian missionary. Left in command at Nanking was the versatile and brilliant Premier of China, Mr. Wang Ching-wei. Today he is carrying the awful onus of secret negotiations with Japan, fateful to China's whole future-the future of the most populous nation in the world...
France. The famed megalithic stones of Carnac in Brittany have been closely studied for more than a century. There are long rows of menhirs (stone pillars ranging up to 60 ft. in height), dolmens (covered burial cairns) and cromlechs (arcs or circles of stones). Once erroneously ascribed to secret rites of the Celtic Druids, they are now known to have been left by a wiry, long-headed people of the late Stone Age who gave way to the metal-wielding Gauls. They buried or cremated their dead and the stones evidently served some ritual or memorial purpose. Last month Professor...
Engaged. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, 42, No. 2 Nazi. President of the Reichstag, Realm Minister of Aviation, Chief of the German Secret Service, Premier of Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Göring to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls...