Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While a secret service man and a secretary sat in the open tonneau, the President and his closest advisers held elbow-to-elbow conferences. He urged Secretary Ickes to get up steam behind the new Civil Works program. With General Johnson he discussed 25 codes which the NRAdministrator had brought from Washington to be signed. When Acting Secretary Morgenthau rode beside the President, the wind wobbling both their pince-nez, the talk was of the Administration's embattled monetary program. Toward sundown the President would drive his guests up to his tight little white frame cottage on Pine Mountain...
...clays later the French Ambassador to Germany, Andre François-Poncet, called on Chancellor Hitler in case he wished to answer the question of France. Their talk was secret. Germans hailed what they called a victory for Herr Hitler, in that he had drawn France into direct conversations on the issue of Security, whereas she has always before insisted that it should be raised only in the open forum of the League...
When the Government announced the lucky numbers in the second drawing last week, most of the new winners kept mum. Since the Government exempts National Lottery winnings from the income tax and publishes winning numbers but not winning names, their secret was their own. Going to the Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires...
Last winter Mrs. Cora Britten of Elliott. Md. became convinced that she had cancer of the breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...
Instead of returning to the U. S. by the northern route, as earlier expected, the Lindberghs headed for Lisbon, Portugal. Late last month, after brief jaunts about the British Isles, they made a secret flight through a night storm to Paris, where Colonel Lindbergh has not been since his 1927 flight. He showed Mrs. Lindbergh the tablet erected at Le Bourget on the spot where he landed, stunted at Villacoublay in an acrobatic plane, visited the Air Ministry's experimental laboratory. Premier Albert Sarraut, Atlantic Flyer Dieudonne Coste and Louis Bleriot entertained them at dinners. After brief trips...