Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Paris flat last week Mme Dmitri Navachine joined the ranks of Russian widows who say their husbands have been murdered by Joseph Stalin's accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result...
...Accomplishments by secret servicemen of various Great Powers in committing political murders from time to time with great neatness were well described in Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
Therefore last week the plight of a hitherto unnoticed Mme Drouard-Marquiset fascinated all prosperous French men. Secret agents had discovered in Switzerland at the Banque Commercials de Bâle a deposit in the name of Mme Drouard-Marquiset which she had omitted to disclose, as required by law. Result...
...Budd Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia. Steelman Bossi, unaware until newshawks descended on him that news of his "aerocycle" had broken in Milan, disproved any hoax by showing motion pictures of himself making the first human-power flight in history in Milan last Sept. 13. The story was kept secret because the aerocycle is shortly to compete for an Italian prize of $5,000 for human-power flight...
Appointed Secretary to the Committee for Foreign Affairs by Congress, Paine's first run-in with Congress occurred when lukewarm members resented his interference with Tory maneuvers. His second disagreement was more serious, lost him his job. Under a secret understanding with France, Louis XVI turned over to the wily courtier Beaumarchais 1.000,000 livres, which was to reach America in gold and gunpowder. But when the commercial agent for Congress, Silas Deane, arrived in Paris to buy munitions, Beaumarchais said nothing about the money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco...