Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trotsky and two other renowned Old Bolsheviks, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who for the past 20 months have been in jail in Russia. Some of the 14 plot underlings from abroad were said to have been seized in Russia with credentials which Pravda described as passports forged by the Nazi secret police "amid the screams of tortured Communist heroes." According to Moscow rumors the Dictator was to have been assassinated at the gala anniversary celebration...
...London, a midnight edition of the Daily Mirror was first to break the carefully guarded secret of who were the King's women guests (TIME, Aug. 17 et ante). Immediately, however, the Daily Mirror was so overcome by its own daring that the entire story was killed out of the 3 a. m. edition which had been originally scheduled to carry a fetching picture of Mrs. Simpson with a dog in her arms. In Europe the story broke as soon as the King and Mrs. Simpson began to go shopping in small Yugoslavian waterfront towns, she speaking...
...front cover) Ten minutes before the short Saturday session officially closed on the New York Cotton Exchange last week, a gong brought trading on the world's biggest cotton futures market to a silent halt. The U. S. Crop Reporting Board, having been locked in secret session in Washington since dawn, was about to release its first estimate of the U. S. cotton crop for the new crop year which opened Aug. 1. Trading also stopped on the country's other two cotton futures markets, in Chicago and New Orleans. On the spot markets scattered throughout the cotton...
Lint Land. Before the Crop Board could be locked up for its secret ciphering last week, before field estimators and picked farmers could furnish the figures with which it arrived at its estimate, some 30,000,000 acres of farm land had to be plowed, harrowed and seeded in that area of the continental U. S. where the growing season from frost to frost is at least seven months. Planting started, as it does each season, in Southern Texas in late winter. From there it rolled north with the sun on an ever widening front until the last seed...
...Saha at a cat show, raised her for three years, delighted in her quiet, affectionate tricks. He had a few misgivings when he married Camille, who was modern, athletic, informed, impulsive, changeable as a mountain stream. But he lost them during their honeymoon and only began to harbor a secret resentment at Camille's plans for remaking their house. While it was being done over they lived on the ninth floor of a Paris apartment, to which Alain soon found an excuse for bringing his pet. As the young couple began to quarrel, after the first ardor of their...