Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also in on several of these secret tête-a-têtes was poker-faced Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France. Surprising credence was achieved by a wild rumor that Mr. Young contemplated the resignation of his friend and protege, Seymour Parker Gilbert, as Agent-General of Reparations and had in mind as his successor M. Moreau. On the assumption that Germany really cannot pay as much as France is sure she can, it might be well for the French government's chief financial adviser to find that out for himself in Berlin. Persistent rumors apart, there was no reason...
...Cafe Edouard Sacher is new and noisy. There is a jazz band, a cocktail bar, plenty of money in the cashier's drawer. Frau Sacher never allowed Edouard to have a word in the management of her hotel. Still Edouard was a dutiful son. It was no secret that the jazzy new cafe had paid many an overdue account for the old hotel...
Giuseppe M. Bellanca has a secret. In his factory at New Castle, Del., is a big new plane about which only the following details were rumored last week: It has two Pratt & Whitney Wasp motors mounted tandem in the nose, one driving an ordinary tractor propeller, the other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot...
...other planes, about which there was no secret, were in the news last week...
...surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going to fill a secret chest which may be locked at the bottom of the sea for all anyone knows about it. Like it or not the Corporation will sometime have to explain this hoarding of a growing fund, and wisdom should dictate that they do so before the chances for misinterpretation and ill-will become...