Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June President John E. Bassill, ex-top sergeant of Marines, had a questionnaire in the form of a secret ballot mailed to his 1,858 Hopewell employes. Of the 1,074 who returned the blanks only 140 favored a strike and 839 declared they were not union members. Ten days later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop...
...secret that Repeal has been something very close to a flop as a business proposition. Publication of Government liquor tax receipts for fiscal 1934 merely added to the evidence. Liquor retailing has been bitterly competitive and for small stores practically profitless. Big distributors are sagging under the weight of carrying the corner dealer. Even the distillers, always suspect, have found Repeal no gold mine. Few weeks ago National Distillers, stockmarket comet of 1933, hit a new low for the year on the same day that Coca-Cola hit a new high of $136 per share...
Convinced of the efficacy of Mr. Houghton's fog broom, newshawks last week rushed to him with demands for the chemical formula. Mr. Houghton put up his hands. "That," he smiled, "is a secret...
KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance...
...SECRET OF TANGLES&151;Leonard R. Gribble&151;Lippincott ($2). Two departments of Scotland Yard hand-in-hand untangle murder and an old swindle to vindicate the harried newlyweds...