Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult key post of Minister of the Interior (controlling the national police force and secret service) Dr. Negrin chose young, forceful Basque Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though...
...only wanted Bilbao, the second industrial city of Spain, but he wanted it whole. Fearful of enraging world opinion, neither side in Spain has used poison gas as yet. Basques worried greatly last week at the capture of dozens of Rightist soldiers carrying gas masks, and word from secret agents that Rightist gas squads were being organized behind the lines...
...Orient to London. Soon Commissioner Mapp took to his bed with high blood pressure, and his superior caused it to be announced that he was taking an extended furlough because of ill health. Commissioner Mapp, however, as if calling a bluff, demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a secret court of inquiry. The five-officer court unanimously convicted Commissioner Mapp of whatever charges General Booth had brought against him. and gossips said that those charges involved "a woman." Indignant Commissioner Mapp announced he would sue for defamation of character...
...father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...
...evolved and put into prompt practice the basic principle on which Standard Oil achieved its power- buy out competitors at pistol point or destroy them if they refuse to sell. Monopoly of oil was his objective almost from the start. The pistol he used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate on his own shipments but also a cash kickback from the freight paid by competitors. Thus...