Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their profit comes from selling it at bargain prices to "distributors" for an average price of $25 for every $100 of bad bills. The "distributors" sell the counterfeits at varying profit to honest men & women in desperate need of money, and to crooks, to swindlers. Last week in Manhattan secret service agents exposed a ring of counterfeiters who had been selling their bills at a cut rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters with their pockets stuffed with their own product. They also found...
...brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London, when U . S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk of the Secretary of State's head caused him hastily to withdraw. Tension meanwhile was slackening. "I will lunch with the U. S. Delegation tomorrow," said French...
...Canada's vehement Premier Richard Bedford Bennett-joined forces to put President Roosevelt's thesis across. For several days the British dominions, all far more radical than the Mother Country, had been warming up to the special Roosevelt brand of "price raising." All speeches made were kept secret, but at one point Secretary Hull brandished under the knifelike nose of French Finance Minister Bonnet a copy of that thick pamphlet, the Conference agenda, asking with passionate emphasis whether there were not scores of subjects left which the Conference could discuss. The Frenchman admitted that there were. Japan...
...always known as just "Mike," has died after a colorful career of 35 years as guardian of Harvard athletics. The traditions have grown around his familiar figure at Soldiers Field since the days of the late Percy Haughton. His official duties were to keep unauthorized persons from witnessing the secret practices of the varsity football team. Mike had a failed banner given to him in 1908 by Percy Haughton. Waving this flag before him he lead the snake dances and football rallies in the old days. At other times he would don a tail silk hat, and with the same...
...neck. The bulb part is 8 in. in diameter, the whole 16 in. long. Inside are, in order from bulb to butt, 1) an ordinary motion picture camera lens which focuses on 2) a 5x4 in. sheet of thin mica. The mica is coated with microscopic particles of a secret light-sensitive material (3,000,000 particles. Dr. Zworykin computes). In the bulb's neck is 3) a small, efficient, oscillating cathode tube which sends a slim beam of electrons weaving over the light-sensitive particles on the mica...