Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American women called "far more handsome than the Prince of Wales and a better dancer," sailed from England for South Africa last week without his elder brother. If Prince George strikes the fancy of any of the dominions to which he is going, King George-it is no Court secret-will appoint him its Governor General...
...tribune, made the most of the French right of free speech. To hear him rant, the whole Cabinet were accomplices of "Handsome Alexandra" Stavisky, the $30,000,000 Bayonne pawnshop Ponzi (TIME, Jan. 15, 22). Accuser Henriot was sure that the Government "murdered" Stavisky whose body was found by Secret Service agents weltering in his blood at the Alpine resort of Chamonix, apparently a suicide. But Accuser Henriot went further. "When the unmarried girl who is now Stavisky's widow was arrested in connection with a burglary," he shouted, "she did not go to jail! They said...
...Pachot could name them," cried Accuser Henriot. drawing out the suspense and naming one of the Secret Service agents investigating the Stavisky case. "Yes, Pachot could name those two and he would say they were de Monzie and Paul-Boncour...
Wildly cheered by the patriotic populace of Modane near the Franco-Italian frontier, 1,200 French soldiers climbed aboard a troop train. Half an hour later 535 were dead and 243 injured in "the worst train wreck in history.'' This grim fact which has been a military secret since it occurred in 1917, was released by the French Government last week. The release came apropos of an investigation into the recent wreck at Lagny in which 200 people died (TIME, Jan. 1) after which the President of the Republic asked mourning Frenchmen not to light the candles...
...Cappon denied that he planned to transfer to Yale. In Iowa City Coach Ossie Solem of Iowa denied the same thing. New Haven belched forth a torrent of contradictory rumors: Yale's one-time Coach T. A. D. ("Tad") Jones might be re-engaged; the members of the secret committee would ask for the resignation of Athletic Director Farmer unless he hired Coach Kipke; Footballer Clare Curtiri, 1934 Yale captain, was conferring with President Angell about a new coach; a petition signed by the 1933 squad, for an "outside" coach (i. e. Kipke) had been sent to Dr. Angell...