Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purports "to give people economic education." Its aims include: 1) Tax reform, with heavier burden on the rich. 2) All persons to be educated until they are 25, work from 25 to 45, then retire. 3) Workers to be paid in nontransferable "units of buying power." Membership is highly secret, members being designated by number. Headquarters claims 200,000 members in 15 major cities and 400 towns. Initiation fee is $3; dues of 10? a month are expected if the member can pay. Neophytes pass through a series of mysterious "cycles," at one of which each is expected to write...
...voted for union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat of such a walk-out still one of the most grievous prospects...
...going to Reno to get a divorce. We may want a divorce but there are any number of things to consider. It's easy to start out-but rather hard to carry through." Mrs. Dall detrained at Truckee, Calif. Thence she, her children, a Negro maid, three watchful Secret Service men, and Lawyer Samuel Platt who served Elliott Roosevelt a year ago, drove away in motor cars at 60 m.p.h. to escape trailing newshawks. In half an hour she arrived at Lake Tahoe and entered the seven-room cottage, on the Nevada shore, which she had rented...
Last week a sub-committee of the House Military Affairs Committee after secret hearings, called upon Secretary of War Dern to oust General Foulois for "dishonesty . . . gross misconduct ... inefficiency . . . inaccuracy . . . unreliability . . . incompetency . . . mismanagement.'' Prime charges: ¶He said he was "quite certain" his men could fly the mail, following cancellation of private contracts. ¶He "told a lie" to the committee, saying that Army mail pilots had from 30 to 60 hours night flying experience, whereas some who crashed had as little as 8 hours. ¶He persistently violated the law in buying planes by direct negotiation instead...
...dust before this fight is over, before the "Friends of New Germany and the Foes of Old America" are skidded back to Swineland. And if you haven't heard the news yet at Harvard, why, I am betraying no confidences when I tell you that every day the new secret organization, American Defenders, are swearing a scared oath that America will never be Sweiniezed...