Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...checkers invariably noted the lack. But when a packet contained an extra bill or two they pocketed the difference, marked the stack O.K. So rare and trifling were the tellers' mistakes from which they profited that it was a long time before their superiors grew suspicious. Then the Secret Service planted packages of marked bills, caught the four redhanded. They were promptly discharged in teary disgrace but. because of their long service and the pettiness of their thieving, the Treasury refused to prosecute them or even reveal their names...
...headed by one named Henry Jones, met in Sinsheimer's Essex Street barroom. Before the matzoth crumbs were swept away they had established a philanthropic society known as B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant) to establish orphanages, run schools and convalescent homes. Originally a secret society, B'nai B'rith came into the open in 1920 with publication of its ritual. Today over 600 lodges of B'nai B'rith exist in 30 countries...
Labor loomed with a new meaning. At the secret sessions of the Associated Press whose annual meeting overlapped the ANPA's, the AP's perennial President Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star, was quoted as saying, "I have no squawk to make over the decision." Yet nobody doubted that there had been plenty of squawks at the AP's inner council table. Criticism roiled around the handling of the case by AP's counsel, John W. Davis...
...registrations took in the entire string of Hearst magazines they covered only one-third of the Hearst newspapers, included nothing on such Hearst interests as King Features, Hearst Metrotone News, Cosmopolitan Productions (cinema). But revealed in some 250 pages of text and tabulations was many a Hearst publishing secret, many a Hearst business oddity...
...embarks on a shy, secretive courtship, and much to his surprise makes headway fast. He tries to keep his affair a secret from his friends, but long before Pat comes to live with him they know all about it. Pat has a secret of her own-tuberculosis. She and Robert go off for a honeymoon vacation by the sea; one day she has a bad hemorrhage. Robert telephones his pals; they round up a doctor, get him there in a hair-raising ride. That time Pat pulls through, but her days are numbered. When winter comes...