Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevailing wage amendment offered by Massachusetts' Connery, let it be voted through after five minutes' discussion. Understanding was that, at prevailing hourly rates. WPA employes would work fewer hours for the same total pay. Explanation of this magnanimous campaign-year gesture toward Labor was that in his secret testimony before the Appropriations Committee, revealed last week, Harry Hopkins had told Congressmen that WPA was already paying prevailing wages almost everywhere in the land. Average WPA pay, he disclosed, ranged" from $23.93 per month in North Carolina "to $72.23 per month in New York City...
What Adolf Hitler will eventually do to get all he wants for Germany is today Europe's most momentous secret. In March the Realmleader sent German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland and a fine-sounding set of peace proposals to Britain (TIME, April 13, et ante). It occurred to Britain's earnest young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that perhaps the best way to find out what Adolf Hitler was thinking was to ask him. He wrote down a list of questions to which honest answers from Hitler would certainly be useful. He sent his manuscript to Pierre Etienne...
...Foreign Affairs Committee of the Governing Parties in the House of Commons is an unofficial organization, composed of Members of Parliament, which meets from time to time in secret sessions. Its purpose is to offer the Cabinet, whose members are barred from its meetings, unofficial advice on British foreign policy. It is generally led by men who have served in other Cabinets who enjoy talking off the record. Last week this strange political organism assembled privately in a House of Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted...
Till We Meet Again has the suspense proper to pictures where the issues at stake are not who makes love to whom but whether those who want to make love are to live or die by doing so. Although its handling of secret service technique will suffer by comparison with more carefully authenticated spy stories, notably MGM's Rendezvous, it contains two memorable scenes: 1) a brilliant reproduction of the firing of one of the famed Ger man long-range siege guns trained on Paris, followed by its destruction by secret serv ice sabotage; 2) the examination...
Reporting. Best reporting job the Pulitzer judges spotted this year was turned in by spectacled Lauren D. ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times, who learned of the Lindberghs' flight to England, kept it a secret four days, scooped the country after they put to sea (TIME, Jan. 6). Exclusive publication of this big story was regarded as a personal favor from Colonel Lindbergh to Reporter Lyman. who in 1927 made the Times's first contact with obscure young Aviator Lindbergh before he flew to Paris. Reporter Lyman is $1,000 richer for his pains...