Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Alabama's Senator Hugo La Fayette Black was no stranger to the Ku Klux Klan was no secret in political Washington when the President nominated him to the Supreme Court. No one who had not been in the Klan's good graces could have been elected to the Senate from Alabama in 1926. So last month when Hugo Black's nomination was confirmed neither press nor politicians made a serious issue of the Klan. As twelve years ago there had been good political reasons for his making Klan connections, so there had long since been equally...
...secret is it that the London Times, stuffiest of all London dailies, not only represents the official opinion of the British Government but prepares many of its leading editorials with Government and Palace assistance. Seldom is that fact as frankly admitted as it was last week. Following the blunt announcement of Nazi Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at Stuttgart fortnight ago, interpreted abroad to mean that the German Government would soon ask diplomatic immunity for three "cultural attaches" to take the place of the three newspaper men recently ousted from Britain as Nazi agents (TIME...
Dictator Smigly-Rydz, knowing that Pianist-Statesman Paderewski had conferred in Switzerland with Witos and other opponents of the military "Colonels' clique" that dominates Warsaw, immediately suppressed every Warsaw paper that attempted to print the Paderewski manifesto (which compelled the secret circulation of the manifesto hand-to-hand), and replied to Paderewski's demand for the cessation of reprisals against the Peasant Party with a new crop of arrests...
...Woodford and Havock incidents apparently were the last straw. Backed to the hilt by France, two long and secret meetings were held in Downing Street attended by key Cabinet Ministers, whereupon came the announcement...
...nervously on what people really thought about him. His considered conclusion: that every public figure should create or control the effigy of himself he showed to the world. Because he felt that Brynhild, his wife, might take a less than sympathetic view, he planned his ensuing publicity campaign in secret, with such conscience-bolstering sentiments as: "No human beings have ever really seen themselves. . . . They pose and act. They tell stories about themselves to other people. Life is a battle of make-believe, a universal bluff." Quietly, cleverly Palace set about getting a publicity man. Before long he realized that...