Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known detective is useful only in a detective novel. The number of Secret Service operatives and detailed budgets under which they work is never made public. The Secret Service maintains 36 local bureaus, whose heads must necessarily be accessible and known. It is estimated that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office...
Proud of his 52 years in the Secret Service, proud that, since its organization in 1861, his secret police system has never had a scandal. Chief Moran is the one man in the U. S. who can, by law, boss the President. He recalls that Woodrow Wilson bridled a bit at first at the precautions taken for him by the Secret Service. But the only Secret Service charge completely to defy the organization to date is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. She stead fastly refuses a bodyguard, although her son James's family has one to protect her grandchild...
Directly charged with guarding the President's life are Richard Jervis. chief of the White House detail, and Col. Edward W. Starling. They, and most other Secret Service operatives, were chosen be cause they do not resemble detectives, can wear morning coats and silk hats without looking like politicians in a St. Patrick's Day parade. It will be noticed that when they are photographed with the President they never look at the camera, always at the crowd, with their hands folded across their chests, one gripping the butt of a revolver inside the coat over the heart...
...this was reminiscent of an incident that nearly brought on the World War in 1911. Morocco then was an independent country whose neutrality was guaranteed by the Treaty of Algeciras (1906). France and Germany were both developing vast commercial interests there. As last week, Germans were accused of secret gunrunning to Moroccan tribesmen when France marched in and occupied Fez. As last week, Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis was supposed to be involved. Only 100 mi. from Ifni, where the former warship Delphin was theoretically bound last week, is the harbor of Agadir. There in 1911 anchored the German warship...
...sung to the Tabernacle organ, one of the world's mightiest, the 104th Conference touched little upon secular problems. Of interest to the Latter-day Saints were reports on their church's huge investments in mines, rails and sugar beets, the extent of which they wisely keep secret...