Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was in contrast to zealous Nazi efforts a few months ago to keep secret their army's preparations for marching into Austria. Last week, for the first time since the World War, Germany called up for maneuvers not only army units but also reservists-the newly trained classes of 1934, 1935 and 1936, plus units of the Landwehr, including men in their late 30s and early 40s, some World War veterans...
...Antonians began to follow Dumpy like children after the Pied Piper. Throughout the neighborhood, treasure hunters began pocking the ground like so many 'forty-niners. But Dumpy shook all pursuers, kept her source secret. By week's end she had brought in $18. Mrs. Stiles took some of the bills to a bank, where she was assured they were neither marked nor on wanted lists. This week all San Antonio was interested or involved in the hunt for Dumpy's roll...
When his will was filed for probate in Chicago last week, rumors of secret wealth supposedly salvaged by the late fallen Utilitarian Samuel Insull were dispelled once & for all. All that was left of a fortune once estimated at $100,000,000 was $1,000. Debts totaled...
...prognostication was much closer to the mark than its customer-newspapers' fabrication, nevertheless, the Lufthansa's remarkably precise shuttle, by far the most important of the Atlantic flights, caused so little stir in the U. S. that it might just as well have been secret. New York City's whitewings had just cleaned up 1,900 tons of paper thrown into the streets in honor of an Irishman who had managed to hit Ireland. The clocklike navigation of the Brandenburg's, crew, in contrast, was feebly cheered by only 2,000 people...
Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns...