Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismay at the undiscovered leak was responsible, they kept the RFC gold price at $34.01 for nine successive business days, longer than the price has stayed unchanged at any time since it was first announced. On the theory that the price could not be discovered by wire tapping no Secret Service men were called upon. Earle Bailie was given the job of playing amateur detective...
...Puig's moratorium, since it would deal a terrific wallop to U. S. holders of Latin-American bonds. On the other hand he dared not cast the Roosevelt Administration in the role of championing the forgotten bondholder. What Secretary Hull said, speaking without notes in a supposedly secret committee meeting, so enraged Dr. Puig that he roundly flayed the U. S. Delegation as advocates of "secret diplomacy" and praised the "honest press" of Montevideo for obtaining by pipeline methods the text of the U. S. Secretary of State's remarks and printing them three days later in Spanish...
Program. Some of the Vidal Decathlon was still secret but eight events had already been started or could be discerned on his program...
Meanwhile everything was so wrong that the Protestant bishops in Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller's "Spiritual Cabinet" resigned after a secret conference lasting eight hours and the Reichsbischof's consecration, scheduled for last Sunday, had to be "indefinitely postponed...
While the others watch, Professor Wright and Mr. Tanner for five secret days carefully, gently and awfully measure each & every princely bone. They photograph them, wrap them in finest lawn. Dean Norris replaces the bones in the urn with a statement on parchment of what has been done in June 1933. The Dean reads part of the Anglican burial service. The urn is resealed and replaced in its niche in Westminster Abbey. King George gets a confidential report, which he permits Anatomist Wright and Muniment-Keeper Tanner to reveal...