Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the precise text of the covenants secretly arrived at in Rome fortnight ago by Premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval remained secret last week, to the extreme vexation of the League of Nations. That M. Laval, for a political quid pro quo in Europe, had sold Abyssinia down the river to Mussolini few doubted. So far as Africa is concerned, it appeared from official summaries of the secret pacts that Italy had got from France...
...hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...
...currently engaged in one of its periodic Red-hunts, this time against schoolteachers and college professors. Other Red-fearers up & down the land are urging passage of a Federal antisedition bill, a bill to bar Communist publications from the mails, a bill to re-establish an anti-Red secret service section of the Department of Justice...
Only immediate result was retirement from the East Texas fields of the Federal Tender Board, which had executed President Roosevelt's unconstitutional ban on interstate shipments of hot oil. Its retirement, however, was by no means the signal for reopening every secret valve and bypass. A stronger Texas hot oil law went into action on Christmas Day, and despite the thuggery, bribery, judicial connivance and wholesale corruption that taint most oil operations in the East Texas fields, State control appeared to be working for once...
...Burns of Oakland, Calif, was re-elected president of the Congress. It was Mr. Burns who last year revealed that a Clevelander named Antonio Longoria had invented a death-ray which killed rabbits, dogs & cats instantly (TIME, July 23). President Burns said that Inventor Longoria would withhold his secret until invasion threatened...