Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Knoxville to Washington came William Andrew Johnson, 79, in the charge of secret service men. No prisoner was William Andrew but an honored guest, sent for by the President who had read in the newspapers that he was a onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson and his ambition was to meet President Franklin Roosevelt. Hobbling into the White House on an old cane, he hobbled out an hour later with two canes, one of them silver-headed, inscribed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said William Andrew to the press: "They let me in and the President had me sit down...
...publicly express themselves on questions of the day. But even a judge must have friends and acquaintances, and there are grapevines in Washington. How the Court is going to decide any given case is something that never can be found out, but how the Court feels is seldom a secret. It is not today. In his way, Charles Evans Hughes is perhaps the only worthy adversary that Franklin Delano Roosevelt has yet picked. The measure of that is that Mr. Hughes, knowing the President will very likely have his way, at least in part, regards the issue with a smile...
...Reich. One smart German not long ago had a set of automobile tools made of platinum, soiled these with grease and dirt, went motoring to Switzerland, locked the tools in a safe deposit vault. Up to last week he had not yet lost his head, but Nazi secret police were mercilessly" on the trail...
Three weeks ago Hitler's benign smile for Bernstein changed to a storm-dark cloud. Members of Hitler's secret police (Gestapo) collared Jew Bernstein secretly, flung him and two of his directors, also Jews, into a Hamburg jail. For a fortnight no journalist could learn the charges. Not till last week did Hitler, in the role of "Germany's Maritime Führer," come through with the statement that Jew Bernstein & colleagues were held "for violation of foreign exchange regulations," that a State trustee had been appointed to operate the Bernstein lines pending the trial...
...secret that the President would like very much to have Mexico's States modify their severe anti-Catholic laws which keep that great Church hamstrung. Chihuahua permits only one priest in the entire State; Veracruz one for each 100,000 of population. Both forbid religious services entirely but services are always going on. One morning last week in Orizaba, police, acting on undetermined authority, surrounded a house where Father José María Flores was illegally celebrating Mass. As his congregation of 58 women and four men began to leave, the police opened fire. Down dropped 14-year...