Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chilly morning last week President Roosevelt got off a special Atlantic Coast Line train at Jacksonville. Behind him was the work and worry of Washington; ahead of him, fun with friends off Florida. For a stag party he had brought along only Gus Gennerich, his bodyguard, three secret service men and his Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. At the station were his son James and Jacksonville's Mayor Alsop. Buttoning his overcoat against the breeze the President got into an automobile with Florida's plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There...
...Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins of Scotland Yard; famed ex-Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, Britain's greatest detective (TIME, July 8, 1929); and last but not least Sir Basil Thomson, onetime Director of Intelligence of the British Secret Service...
Faced with the evidence of fingerprints on secret films, the Switzes confessed to being agents, said that their original orders came from Roosevelt Field, L. I. French police made it sound much better than that. They succeeded in embroiling the Switzes with almost everyone accused of espionage in France for the past year, talked largely of an international gang that worked for the strange partners. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, against France, Britain and the U. S. The apartment of a Mlle. Baila Englard was raided. It was unoccupied but reported to be full of secret drawers, sliding panels...
...m.p.h. gale out of the North screamed across Hakodate Bay as the shadow of night ran across the city, slid up the pine-covered face of Hakodate Head and The Peak, and enfolded the secret forts on the heights. The crows flapped up from the garbage in the slums to be whirled helplessly to the base of the two peaks, where they dropped on limp wings. Children hung their snow sleds beside the door and squatted down to a Hokkaido (Japan's New England) supper of fish, beans and rice. In the Bay a forest of masts swayed wildly...
...Government had guaranteed a $100,000,000 bank loan to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which remained a secret for months & months and if President Roosevelt had appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee to be cross-examined on such a transaction by rich, radical Senator Couzens, the ensuing commotion in Washington would have been deafening. Yet 500 miles to the north on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, last week, approximately the same set of facts was revealed without any Dominion-shaking uproar. Edward Wentworth Beatty, blunt, ready-tongued head of Canadian Pacific Ry., had testified before the House of Commons Banking & Currency...