Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transmission to the Son of Heaven. There was some mumbling about the seven generals feeling "indirectly responsible" for the assassinations of last fortnight, but to a Japanese the seven resignations meant that, in exchange for this colossal "expiation," the Army expected a like return, perhaps demanded it in secret...
...plus 6% or 6½% depending on rubber prices (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934). After Goodyear has had time to figure its costs accurately, the contract permits "adjustments," which have worked with remarkable regularity in Sears' favor. The Trade Commission now says these are nothing more nor less than "secret rebates," a fighting phrase since the days of John D. Rockefeller...
Then Germany, which was sending blobby pictures with the mechanical scan ner, heard of Farnsworth. To his Philadelphia laboratories went suave, crisp Dr. Paul Goerz, head of Fernseh Radioaktien-gesellschaft of Berlin, and a tall, super cilious radio engineer named Rudolph Moeller. After secret conferences and demonstrations, the Germans leased the Farnsworth system for Fernseh, backed by the Nazi Government. The price was not revealed, but as part payment Farnsworth got U. S. rights to Bosch and Zeiss patents controlled by Fernseh. These include a yellow receiving screen which is supposed to be superior to RCA-Victor's green...
...Senate, and from then on, it is one obstruction after another that the culprits throw across the path of justice. Even polite questionnaires aren't answered, important records are hidden and destroyed, high powered corporation lawyers insist on "constitutional rights", which mean the rights of the rich to keep secret the secrets of their success. But the power and the procedure, in some cases, triumph; after weeks of Senatorial threats, plutocratic evasions, and painstaking research, the real troubles begin with the public hearing...
Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...