Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last June the Federal grand jury in Chicago returned a secret indictment under the Bankruptcy Act against Samuel Insull, his son Samuel Jr., his brother Martin, now a fugitive in Canada, and eight others including President Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co., President Edward John Doyle of Commonwealth Edison and Stanley Field of Continental Illinois National Bank. The five-pronged charge was that the Insulls & friends had transferred $2,500,000 from their Corporation Securities Co. between Nov. 2, 1931 and Jan. 20, 1932 when they knew their concern was already insolvent to the tune...
...moment when the Nazi legions were marching to the East and to the West, at the moment when Benito Mussolini was watching his troops practice protecting northern Italy. Premier Edouard Daladier of France went to Metz to inspect a 125-mile section of the chain of secret underground fortresses and tunnels that will soon protect the French frontier from Belgium to the Swiss Alps. This section took five years to build, cost $100,000,000. Said M. Daladier...
...figure growing daily larger on the Cuban scene is young Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, leader of the Secret ABC and present Secretary of the Treasury. In his office last week he received U. S. reporters, wasted no time on the sins of the previous administration, but talked as frankly and directly as a Roosevelt New Dealer...
...Their presence was once thought to prove that a land link between Europe and Africa existed as late as the Pleistocene period. But scientists grew doubtful when they could find no monkey fossils in Gibraltar's honeycomb of caves. Natives explained that easily: the apes had a secret sub-Mediterranean tunnel by which they returned to Africa to die. Scientists decided that the apes must have been imported by Romans or Moors...
Delegates were divided into four "round tables," at which deliberations were secret. The Press was permitted to quote directly only a few public speeches which were really a side-issue of the conference. Most newsworthy point in these speeches was the prediction by London's famed Economist Gregory, that only inflation could make the NRA succeed and that the aftermath of that might be world chaos...