Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Base figure was $2,600,000,000 for normal Governmental expenditure. He reckoned total Federal income at $3,400,000,000?. What he would do with the marginal billion, whether or not he would ask Congress to appropriate more for relief or recovery projects would remain the President s secret until he delivered his budget speech to Congress this week...
...Year in 1932, when the New Deal was new. More popular than the day he won the Presidency, he had lived up to the brightest expectations of the electorate. But he needed no fresh laurels, could well afford to pass them along to an associate. The secret of the New Deal's success lies in the well-known fact that the time to make sociological hay is when, the economic sun is not shining. But four years of hard times did not soften the U. S. industrial order, which had gone its untrammeled way for generations. Given a program...
...Weir was willing to consent to having "non-employes' " names on the ballots, so that A. F. of L.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers Union delegates might be eligible, but he drew the line at voting "ex-employes." He also refused to abandon the secret ballot in favor of the petition system. Deeming that such procedure rules would give outside A. F. of L. men undue advantage, he brusquely notified the Board: "We must consider any arrangement with you terminated...
...been violently transformed into a mission. They are hot-gospelers for the State. picked for their ability to believe and act in harmony with the slogan printed everywhere, "Il Duce is never wrong!" Once an editor, II Duce realizes that the details of his press domination are best kept secret from countries in which journalism is still a free profession. Last week Manhattan's anti-Fascist daily La Stampa Libera was able to publish copies of a smuggled series of daily orders released to the Press of Italy last summer from the Dictator's press bureau whose head...
...British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...