Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attractive British doctrine that, after all, there is nothing much wrong with the world. To blast Depression, say Social Crediteers, is as simple as any other sort of blasting once you know the trick. Major Douglas supposedly knows it better than anyone else. Possession of this Great Secret has somewhat oppressed the Major, caused him to write : "We all know Mark Twain's story of the man who was imprisoned for 20 years and then walked out, having just discovered the door never had been locked, and some of us think it funny. I consider it a some what...
...ended so surprisingly at the Shoreham. Next day Representative O'Connor and Senator Black were again at swords' points, for it turned out that Mr. Hopson had a good excuse for not appearing before the Senate on the previous afternoon : the House Committee had had him testifying at a secret session. If the Senate was going to try to steal his witness, Representative O'Connor threatened to have Mr. Hopson placed under protective arrest. Senator Black started backing water, announced that since the House felt as it did, he would preserve "the rules of comity," would not try to seize...
That night Representative O'Connor had a shock. All day he kept Mr. Hopson under examination in secret. At 5 p. m. the examination was over. At 5:20 Mr. Hopson, who evidently did not relish the prospect of being put under arrest by the Senate for contempt or by the House for his protection, marched into a special session of Senator Black's committee...
Clay, still dodging the police, found his love affair troubled. He and Luce picked hops together, quarreled, outwitted mean-spirited settlers, camped together in a cabin on the desolate coast. Clay lied about the circumstances that had made him a fugitive; Luce would not disclose some dark secret that burdened her life. When the settlers left the coast to trek inland again. Wade Shiveley bobbed up in the wagon train. Clay killed another boy while trying to kill Wade, then accused Wade of the killing. Almost exposed, he assisted at Wade's lynching. Luce had a miscarriage. Leaving...
...Thoughts, With such tall talk of such fat figures ringing in their ears, the Senate Finance Committeemen retired into their committeeroom with the House tax bill, started to remake it, supposedly in secret. Every few minutes, however, some loose-tongued Senator stuck out his head to whisper to the Press that another chunk had been taken out of the measure. First inheritance taxes went out bodily. Then a new schedule of estate taxes higher than those in force was ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were...