Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their White House press conferences last week, newshawks sensed something extraordinary about President Roosevelt. He behaved as if he were privy to some enormous secret joke which made him feel particularly good. But for all their fishing with well-baited questions the correspondents could get nothing more from him than that he might be sending still another special message to Congress that afternoon. Thus it was no great surprise when White House Messenger Latta trotted into the Capitol at 2 o'clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising...
After hearing Old Takahashi out, the War Minister and Navy Minister curtly stated that "the international situation" precludes "economies" in their departments. Sessions of the Council last week were supposed to have been secret, but its proceedings leaked out in such detail that everyone who knows the cunning Finance Minister assumed that he had chosen this astute means of letting Japanese public opinion crystallize around the fact that it is now a case of rule or ruin, triumph or bust. In the suppressed opinion of numerous Japanese economists the further the Empire adventures into China the more fatally she overextends...
...years the Department of Commerce has conducted private investigations of fatal airplane crashes, kept its findings secret to protect airlines from adverse publicity. Year ago Air Commerce Director Eugene Luther Vidal got Federal regulations amended to make publication of reports on fatal airplane accidents mandatory (TIME, July...
...Angelo Codes" (d'Annunzio); 2) autobiographic sketches, each ending with an episode in which he has contemplated suicide; 3) his "Secret Book," a philosophical listing of numerous nocturnal notes in which he reveals himself with frankness...
...Milan the contents of Gabriele d'Annunzio's new book entitled One Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages of the Secret of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Who Is Now Tempted to Die, were revealed: 1) introduction...