Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beating his wife," Charles A. Poole, Detroit WPA worker who did not beat his wife, was shot and killed last May by members of an insignificant secret society which had delusions of vigilante grandeur (TIME, June 1 & 8). Last week twelve members of this shoddy "Black Legion" stood up in Detroit court to be sentenced for their shoddy crime. Eight, guilty of murder, got life sentences; four, guilty of second degree murder, got three and one-half to 20 years...
...second son. The Nye committee had spent months blackguarding the du Fonts, Britain's late George V, a handful of Latin American dignitaries, Woodrow Wilson and the House of Morgan. But not until last week did the press smoke out of its files a two-year-old secret about Elliott Roosevelt's scheme to sell airplanes to Russia. Even then, Chairman Nye, one of the Senate's smartest hands at investigation publicity, loudly deplored the disclosure as "an attempt to smear the President" and as "not designed for any honest and constructive purpose." Nevertheless, the same public...
Hjalmar Schacht on his recent European tour did not discover the secret that France was about to devalue the franc with U. S. and British co-operation and that this would be followed by devaluation of the lira, Swiss franc, Dutch guilder, etc. Had Germany known what was coming, Dictator Hitler might have managed to join in and tell the German people that their mark was being devalued in an international concert of Economic Disarmament to which the Fatherland had been admitted with "equality" and "honor." Instead, according to Berlin observers, Herr Hitler felt last week that Dr. Schacht...
...happen to dislike Journalist Radek and the small fringe of whiskers around his round face have called him "that ugly little Jewish monkey." Once his name was mentioned by defendants in the recent Plot-Against-Stalin trial, farcical though that was, the Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs set secret police to see what they could "get" on Radek. In Russia such agents seldom fail on such assignments. The object in this case was to link Radek with Stalin's enemy, Trotsky...
...last secret practice before the team's first major test against Army, Dick Harlow continued to apply the pressure yesterday...