Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid every penny of the loans. The complaint also maintained that President Fleishhacker had meanwhile drawn down $75,000 in salary. $73,000 in dividends, and $200,000 in other secret emoluments on the side. The Lazards claimed that all profits from the deal belonged rightfully to the Anglo Bank since it put up the money...
...entire good faith. Balance of the defense, presided over by famed & fast-thinking Lawyer John Francis Neylan, longtime Hearst adviser, was based principally on the claim that Herbert Fleishhacker never imposed a repayment condition upon any of the loans made to the Bardes, that he had never received any secret emoluments under the guise of salary or dividends. In his brief period on the stand, Banker Fleishhacker categorically denied all charges in the plaintiff's lengthy complaint, maintained he had acted in perfect good faith. Finally Lawyer Neylan called serious little Etienne Lang to the stand and twitted...
Mushrooms, he learned, are fungi developed from spores which float in the air, too small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons...
...have been discovered. Traveling abroad between the ages of 17 and 20, young Sidney captivated royalty, diplomats, scholars; the only criticism voiced was that he drank too much water, ate too much fresh fruit. In Paris, as guest of Francis Walsingham (later head of England's unexampled secret service, and Philip's future father-in-law) Philip witnessed the slaughter of St. Bartholomew's Day, conceived for Spain and the Papacy the only ungentle attitude in his makeup...
...solving crimes from reading English detective stories. Hwa-che's first few casts did credit to her training but instead of solving the mystery got herself and several other people into terrible trouble. How everything was enabled to come so deliciously right in the end is the professional secret of Author Bramah...