Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand until the turn came of Chief Kolchavteewah. For a moment, to Franklin Roosevelt's surprise, it looked as if Kolchavteewah was going to kiss the Presidential hand, but the Redman's lips never actually touched the Roosevelt flesh. Following an old Indian custom, he made a secret sign. Then the tribesmen did a buffalo dance on the lawn, and the President drove...
...people poltroons. Benito Mussolini has the worst economic situation in Europe and the least rebellion to contend with. Nevertheless, though every Fascist officer says, "There are no strikes in Italy," Spivak dug out records of 153 illegal strikes under Fascism. The humblest Italian is paralyzed with fear by the secret police ("The Bats") headed by an imitation Mussolini. Another imitation Mussolini, handsome President Tullio Cianetti of the Confederation of Labor, conceded that "Fascism has not abolished the class struggle or class distinctions." Mussolini, says Spivak, has smashed the middle classes, degraded the workers and all but bankrupted Big Business...
...with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials and members of the Cabinet, and Britain takes care that Cabinet secrets shall not leak out accidentally. Far from the least important official in Whitehall is a character known as the Confidential Waste Man. A trusted secret service employe, it is his duty to empty every Government trash-basket in Whitehall, burn the contents himself...
...month, just before King Fuad died, King Ibn Saud maneuvered Egypt's then Premier Aly Maher Pasha into new negotiations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. From his deathbed Fuad, also anxious to patch the quarrel since he still hoped to be named Caliph of all Islam,* fostered the secret negotiations...
...right there by all those who heard two other Journalism Week orators. Bronzed, bushy-haired Publisher Bernarr Macfadden of Liberty, True Story, True Romances and Physical Culture took the platform to explain the secret of his success in the publishing business, part of which he credited to curiosity...