Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public continued its "unreasonable attitude," Generalissimo Chiang summoned a secret conference of government leaders last week at his summer headquarters at Ruling in the Lushan Mountains. Up for discussion was, among other things, a new Constitution which would take the President of China out of the figurehead class (a Mr. Lin Sen is now President) and give him full powers. The implication was that Generalissimo Chiang will make himself President and move into the brand new $100,000 Chinese "White House" (yellow walls, blue tile roof) at Nanking which puppet President Lin has never ventured to occupy...
...from U.S. silver producers under the President's proclamation of last December (TIME, Jan.1). Some of it came from melting down old coins. But how much, if any, silver the Government had bought in the open market, in the U. S. or abroad, remained a dark secret...
...Steeped in the conviction that all authority of the State must proceed from the people and by them be ratified in free, secret election, I request you immediately to lay the decision of the Cabinet, with possible necessary additions before the German people for a free plebiscite...
...Chicago "Buzzie" and "Sistie" Ball, grandchildren of President Roosevelt, said good-by for two weeks to their mother, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall. With a nurse and a secret service agent they went down a railroad platform to meet their father, Curtis Bean Dall. With "Popsie" they saw the World's Fair, ate double chocolate ice cream cones, got their hair cut. Said "Sistie": "I don't like braids. They fall in my soup...
From their $1,552,000 fee, Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein will have to repay their loan from the City of Chicago. High-bracket income taxes will take another $400,000 to $500,000. The division of the remainder was secret, but La Salle Street expected Lawyer Goldstein to receive at least a half for his four-year campaign...