Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back from Berlin last month on the world's fastest liner, R. M. S. Queen Mary, came the world's fastest blackamoor, Jesse Owens, with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just...
...pressed on to seize swank San Sebastian. Their victory was reflected in Madrid by a complete upheaval of the Cabinet. Thus far sympathizers with Madrid had been able to claim that "not a single Socialist or Communist" sat in the Cabinet under President Manuel Azaña. Though the secret was long since out that this Cabinet was powerless, that Madrid was dominated by Red militia and "People's Tribunals'' similar to those which asserted themselves during the French Revolution, the fagade of the Republic was maintained. It crumbled as Irun fell and the Reds grew desperate...
...Dictatorships, based on secret police and firing squads, have been set up in many lands. The noblest words that can issue from the mouth of man have been prostituted and the noblest sentiments of the heart of man have been played upon by propaganda to conceal the simple truth: that those dictatorships are tyrannies imposing their dogmas on an enslaved people...
With its customary air of imparting an enormously weighty secret to an annoyingly impatient world, the New York Yacht Club last week announced, in round official style, that it had received a challenge from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in behalf of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith to race for the America's Cup in the summer of 1937. What made the announcement a shade less than breathtaking, even to that microscopic minority of the sporting public which normally gets excited about the America's Cup, was that the news had been unofficially given out in England...
...while he kept the secret in the family. His brother Jesse staked two claims adjoining Jumbo on the north. George's two sons, Kenneth, 24, University of Nevada graduate, and Wilfred, 20, University of Nevada sophomore, staked claims on the remaining sides of Jumbo. The four thereupon signed a 50-year agreement not to sell their claims...