Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progress of science, in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions...
...Chapin (Hudson Motor Co.). Financial gossips and newsmen, who had failed to anticipate the Chrysler-Dodge merger, talked last week about Packard's near-future alliance with Hupp, Hudson-Essex or Nash. They knew that Alvan Macauley had left for Manhattan (from Detroit), had gone into "secret" conference with motormen. Actually the "secret" conference was the regular meeting of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. "We will continue alone," said Alvan Macauley and took train for Detroit...
...passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird, the hot argument or epic narrative afterward...
...place of Federal prohibition we favor the installation, by the States, of a method of controlled and restricted distribution which will prevent the exploitation of the liquor traffic for unconscionable profits, and not only do away with prevailing speakeasies and secret drinking but prevent the reappearance of the old unregulated saloon system and the political iniquities which accompanied...
Railway Express. According to secret information to the New York World, the U. S. railroads as a group next March will pay $100 per share for all the assets of the American Railway Express Co. Express Company stockholders expected...