Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President said nothing publicly but what he had on his mind was no secret: money. It was known that he had on his desk an opinion from Attorney General Cummings on the Treasury's right to take over the Federal Reserve System's gold holdings. It was known that Mr. Cum mings, Secretary Morgenthau (with his outgoing adviser, Earle Bailie), Governor Eugene Black of the Federal Reserve, Rene Leon, big silver propagandist, all had been in session at the White House. At his regular meeting with correspondents the President dropped two hints of his intentions: 1) that...
...role, with his son. James, his daughter-in-law, "Fin." Frank Vanderlip and Charles E. Mitchell in minor parts. Though Biographer Winkler cannot make Banker Stillman out a double-dyed, red-handed villain, he does succeed in conveying the impression that he was cold as a fish, unlovable, cautious, secretive, able. As Winkler tells it. the precocious but well-boosted rise of James Stillman from Manhattan cotton broker to president of the National City Bank reads like an Alger success-story. Once in control of the bank, Stillman determined to make it Manhattan's biggest. In two years...
...value of English 28 is that those who take it are forced to road a certain amount of the best of English literature has long been agreed; but why the course cannot be made as fascinating and valuable as the corresponding survey of French literature, French 6, is a secret known only to members of the English department. One is inclined to think that the course is as dull and superficial as it is only because no one has ever seriously tried to improve...
...Lindbergh kidnapping might have been solved if the federal secret service alone had taken charge of it," continued Mr. Loesch. "It was mishandled because of the professional pride of the New Jersey police. What America needs is a centralized police force as in France. That would allow one officer to pursue his criminal all over the country without consulting bothersome local authorities...
...Loesch was never a member of Colonel Isham Randolph's organization for fighting Chicago gangsters called the "Secret Six." He said some reporter must have been guilty of nicknaming that unmysterious group of twenty...