Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have now been taken. Imports we have reduced to the most crucial minimums, and all Italian resources public and private have been pooled to pay for imports which are indispensable. How much we have obtained or hope to obtain by [forced] repatriation of Italian funds abroad is naturally our secret, as important as any military secret...
...dealing: secret personal communications between Dictator Benito Mussolini and British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were acknowledged to have taken place. II Duce shrewdly wrote in Italian and had Ambassador Dino Grandi read off an ex tempore verbal translation to Sir Samuel, after which Grandi departed with the secret sheets of Mussolini's message and may well have burned them. Whether or not Sir Samuel's end of the deal was handled with equal discretion in Rome by British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, who for 14 years was Secretary General of the League of Nations, the cynicism...
...would have distressed King George, it would have made the good man wince, if His Majesty had heard and believed reports current in Wall Street, Thread-needle Street and on the Paris Bourse that a secret deal had in fact been made between the Italian and British Governments (see col. i). In the United Kingdom no hint of this reached the mass of voters who must ballot before this time next year in General Election...
...York Evening Journal beat its rivals to the street by more than one hour with pictures of Sophie Crempa's funeral (see p. 16). Because an hour is more than 60 minutes-as time is reckoned by afternoon newspapers, the Journal's scoop was noteworthy. Its secret was to be found on the roof of the huge East River plant which houses both of William Randolph Hearst's New York newspapers...
...night-flying pigeons-first of their kind. Particularly useful in connection with military planes, they can fly through rain, sleet, fog, snow and around thunderstorms, are vulnerable to nighthawks but little else. They do not fly entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears stopped up. U. S. distance record for homing pigeons is 2,150 mi. (Maine to Texas) at a speed of 700 mi. per day. The sport of racing homing pigeons, introduced...