Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankers' Treasury," McAdoo made national banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant: he issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the spy-hunting Secret Service, floated four Liberty Loans, the Fourth being the biggest of all bond issues (23,000,000 subscriptions totaling $6,989,047,000), served as Director General of all U. S. railroads after Wilson took them over by proclamation...
...from making any secret last week of what they called "trial mobilization," Nazi authorities in Berlin took no steps to hamper the sending out by correspondents of crisp, alarming details...
...carried pistols-most of whom were sorry pistol shots. So in 1935 Mr. Morgenthau instituted year-round pistol practice, taught by Coast Guard cracks, for all armed agents of his Customs Bureau, Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Narcotics, White House Police, Bureau of the Mint, Secret Service, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Uniformed Force of the Secret Service, Public Health Service. He put up a handsome silver Morgenthau Trophy and several other prizes for annual competition...
Although his stunt* had made him one of the celebrities of 1938, it was no secret that Golfer Ferebee would have been just as pleased to have lost the farm. Heavily mortgaged, it has been a headache ever since the partners bought it three years...
...confessions without using a rubber hose (a secret...