Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come as Chief of the Police of Prussia!" he shouted, banging the Chancellor's door behind him. What more General GÖring said remained an exciting secret last week, but he was understood to have urged use of the full power of Prussia's police and Storm Troops to "break" pastors who do not conform to Nazification of the Church...
Austrian Nazis grew cockier day by day. Small but noisy bombs were exploded in dozens of cities. Crowds rioted in front of government concentration camps. A mysterious fire broke out in Parliament Building at Vienna, was quickly put out. Bravely the Dollfuss Government fought back. A secret report on Nazi preparations and propaganda was sent to the Governments of France, Italy, Britain, who remained as one in their desire to keep out of a very dangerous business. There was no secret about the note sent Germany demanding a written recognition of Austrian independence and a guarantee of nonintervention...
...House of Hohenzollern, as most Germans believe, backed Adolf Hitler with secret cash at the start of his skyrocket career, Investors Wilhelm II and ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm must have groaned last week to see their Nazi equity apparently wiped...
...hearings not on domestic relations but on unholy relations which, the Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates, the Commission attacked the contracts by which Goodyear makes cheap tires for Sears to sell under Sears' brand names. Last week's revelations...
...contracts contained clauses permitting "adjustments" after Goodyear had had time to figure its costs more accurately, but these adjustments worked in favor of Sears only. In seven years Goodyear had paid Sears $2,500,000 in "adjustments," which the Commission's attorney insisted on calling "secret rebates...