Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...names and faces of the U. S. Secret Service operatives, and the methods with which they had worked on the case quietly and tenaciously as muskrats for seven weeks, remained, as always, a deep Government secret. Just as unostentatiously, anonymous Secret Service men in Cleveland last week uncovered three more suspect counterfeiters whom they charged with passing $100,000 in forged bills through the East and Midwest...
...Secret Service. Best known undercover arm of the Government is the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation, directed by J. Edgar Hoover, whom one is supposed to telephone in case anyone in the family is kidnapped. The Department of Labor has sleuths who track down immigration irregularities, turn up alien wrongdoers. Famed for their relentlessness are the Post Office Department inspectors, prepared to spend a day or a lifetime bringing to justice mail robbers, perpetrators of postal frauds. The Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income...
...these forces, none is properly entitled to the specific name "U. S. Secret Service." That designation is officially reserved for the investigating corps of the Secretary of the Treasury. The U. S. Secret Service has two main duties: suppressing counterfeiting and the well-known one of protecting the President & family and the "person of the person elected to be President of the United States" (President-elect) and his family...
...francs. Because Papa Chéron was never one to become needlessly excited, Frenchmen knew that things were bad indeed last week when he gave weight to wild stories of impending civil war in the Paris Press. At his order a special inquiry was started into the existence of secret arms depots of various political parties. With the assistance of Minister of the Interior Sarraut, he also drew up a new decree, instantly signed by President Lebrun, putting teeth into the old law of 1834 regulating the sale of weapons...
These two fast thawers of frozen credit politely refused to reveal their method of transferring marks out of Germany. All big banks with German connections know how to wangle marks into dollars, francs or pounds but the process (quite legal) is a deep trade secret and each bank has its own system. Highly involved, it usually entails purchasing marks at a big discount from holders of frozen credits, then selling the marks to people who are forced to buy or travel in Germany. But Messrs. Wreszynski & Norris will pay more for their marks than legitimate bankers, sometimes 2%, sometimes...