Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went in full uniform with all his medals General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. who was the Reichswehr's brilliant commander under Chancellor von Schleicher. Floral tributes rolled up by the truckload and Military Chaplain Schleigel was striding resolutely up to begin the service when he was nabbed by Secret Police...
...have orders from above!" they barked. Pushing aside the Chaplain and General von Hammerstein, they seized the coffins of General and Frau von Schleicher and carted them off. Other Secret Police chased mourners away from the empty graves. For 48 hours the von Schleicher family knew not what had become of their dead. Then more Secret Police arrived...
...closed windows were useless for keeping their secret because even the youngest and greenest reporter on the outside knew that Mr. Pecora was fighting tooth & nail against Mr. Kennedy's election as chairman. That job was morally Mr. Kennedy's because the President had given his good friend a five-year appointment, longest of any Commissioner. But there was open talk that Mr. Kennedy was a Wall Streeter, that he was not above a little stock speculation now and then...
...crowning sensation of last week's killings came when Secret Police pushed into the swank suburban mansion of General Kurt von Schleicher, immediate predecessor of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor and the officer to whom it fell in 1918 to tell All Highest Wilhelm II that his army was no longer faithful to the Crown and that he had best flee to Holland...
These rumors and whatever proofs General Göring may have had last week cost General von Schleicher dear. According to the official Nazi version General von Schleicher resisted arrest by the Secret Police ''with a weapon in his hand," Frau von Schleicher flung herself before her husband to protect him and the Secret Police shot them both "in self defense." Later an eyewitness reported that six men in civilian garb had driven into the von Schleicher driveway, summoned the General and his wife, riddled them with bullets in gangster style, sped away without a word...