Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spot." This system provided, among other items, that employes should have a voice in the company's affairs. But the voice was to be expressed through duly elected employe representatives. For the employes to go over the heads of these representatives to hold mass meetings and cast secret ballots, was a resounding slap at Cooperation. "I believe in the Cooperative System," said Mr. Senter solemnly, "as much as I do the Bible which my mother gave me." Employe-stockholders booed. Mr. Senter reminded the men that the trustees had restored wages to pre-Depression rates and warned them about...
...consider, and that question is : 'Who is going to determine the [candidate's] fitness and how is it going to be determined?' " A political lone wolf who has spent a lifetime shunning partisan alignments, Senator Borah naturally feared that the Republican nominee might be chosen "in secret conclave behind closed doors long after midnight." "This," he warned, "is not a very good year . . . for exclusiveness in the matter of selecting a candidate for the Presidency...
...this time the Army officers had elaborated their policy and sent to George II an "oral manifesto." This warned His Majesty not to dare to grant amnesty to pro-Venizelos officers chased out of Greece during the last Revolution. Obviously the King was suspected of being in a secret pact with M. Venizelos to bring the "Great Exile" back to Greece and make him Premier for the ninth time. Although no doubt willing to sell out for a reasonable price and string along with this arrangement, the Army and Air Force officers last week closed by menacingly informing His Majesty...
...seven generations the Hidalgos have been encausticists. Several Catholic churches in Mexico own today wax figures molded by Luis Hidalgo's great-great-grandfather. Luis Hidalgo uses no molds, carves directly in blocks of beeswax without any preliminary studies, guards a secret process that enables the figures, once carved, to resist a heat of 110° Fahrenheit without melting. All that he will say about it is that it is a mixture of four acids...
...rumor, they worked day & night checking 98 cheating cases with University records. Four days after the first raid all was ready. Lest Cartland be mobbed by his angry clients he was sent out of town. Then Jack Pool summoned his student council, presented it with the 98 cases. In secret session the council went through the evidence case by case, in two days suspended 40 students from college...