Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the Civil War, $1,400,000 was the tentative price agreed on. During the War, when the Confederacy was trying to get British and French recognition, Secretary Seward persuaded Russia, as a demonstration of friendship, to have its warships cruise along both Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, with the secret understanding that the U. S. would pay for the maneuver. After the war and Lincoln's assassination, a new administration made secret payment for Russia's aid impossible. The cost of the naval maneuvers-$5,800,000-was therefore added to the price of the new territory...
When the Nazis came to power in 1933 some 500 secret police, intelligence men, and agents of the Ministry for Propaganda descended on London, began to check up on Germans living permanently or temporarily in Britain. Last week the New York Times' astute commentator "Augur" estimated that there are 20,000 Germans in London alone-including refugees, businessmen, domestic servants-many of whom have been enrolled willingly or otherwise in various Nazi organizations by such agents as Langen. The organization of domestic servants is so closely supervised that the British Foreign Office has warned its members not to engage...
Reason for these amenities was that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had sent Il Duce a dovelike message on the Spanish question. Mussolini sent a not less silky reply to London. The contents, though "secret," were soon being discussed in every capital in Europe: Mussolini was highly delighted by the British "gesture of friendship...
Died. Adolf Edward Wuppermann, 65, president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (Angostura Bitters), brother of Cinemactors Ralph and Frank Morgan; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Angostura Bitters is brewed according to a secret formula known only to three descendants of Inventor Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a retired Army surgeon who lived in Venezuela. Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. was started in 1879 by Adolf Wuppermann's father to take over the U. S. Angostura agency. When George Wuppermann died in 1915, the presidency passed to his able widow who ran the company until she died last September...
...Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...