Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party spent at Groton, his old school 25 miles away, with a return to Worcester and the special train for the night. At the school gates, by order of Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, rector and headmaster, the President's entourage of newshawks and all his bodyguard save two Secret Service men were promptly locked...
Policy. As erroneous as the Press's interpretation of the Fleet's exercises is the public conception of the reason for the Fleet's recall from the Pacific to the Atlantic. To most laymen, Naval Policy is a secret code formulated by a few admirals in Washington who spend their days hankering for war. There is nothing mysterious or alarming about U. S. Naval Policy. Any citizen, if he likes, can have a copy of it, signed by Secretary Swanson, and printed in bold type on a single sheet of paper 2 ft. square to hang...
...Prague Castle's gothic, spidery Ladislaus Hall last week the 420 Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia's parliament met to elect a President by secret ballot. The secrecy was unnecessary because all the world knew what the result would be. For the fourth successive time gentle white-chinned Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and only President of Czechoslovakia, was overwhelmingly elected. Today President Masaryk is 84; if he lives out his fourth term he will...
...discovered an ardent admirer of NRA. Cattle Thief Francisco Atenor Gomez, painfully picking his way through Buenos Aires newspapers, had evolved a plan to up the price of stolen cattle by setting up a rustler's code for six other bands of cattle thieves, pooling stolen cattle in secret corrals until prices rose. At the police station he was only too glad to explain...
Washington, Not without the secret approval of the Roosevelt Administration was the buck so neatly passed to the U. S. President Hoover had earnestly tried to halt the shipment of arms to the Chaco. Then in April 1933 the House had passed an Administration resolution authorizing the President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into...