Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State's Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne, wired President Roosevelt that Sholtz was an "unworthy official, having lost the respect of the people." To Governor Sholtz was sent a stinging, 300-word rebuke: "The highest office . . . was not handed you to use for . . . vindictive purposes or to carry out secret . . . programs." Speakers-mostly clubwomen and attorneys-loudly whanged their Governor. When ousted Attorney Hawthorne was introduced as "the next Governor of Florida," the crowd yelled lustily...
Like other recent Vice Presidents, John Garner was invited to attend Cabinet meetings. Unlike Messrs. Coolidge, Dawes and Curtis before him, he not only attended regularly, but spoke his mind forcefully. Such meetings are naturally as secret as they can be made. Hence only an occasional leak disclosed the part the red-faced, blue-eyed, white-haired Vice President played around the Cabinet table. Significant is the fact, however, that after one of his discourses Franklin Roosevelt, a great giver of nicknames, dubbed him "Mr. Commonsense." Significant, too, are the things the stubby little Texan is generally given credit...
...visiting experts claim that the plant food, a secret Davey formula, will force the grass to blossom with an effulgence unseen in recent years...
...with Mr. Weber's withdrawal last week, came a profound, if involuntary, break in Allied's tradition of secrecy. Directors announced that application would be made for permanent listing under the Securities & Exchange Act-a move that requires full & complete disclosure of almost every corporate secret. Prospect of having his salary (once reputedly as high as $780,000 per year) or his stockholdings spread before the Public, may have hastened Mr. Weber's retirement. Alternative to Allied listing was to have its 2,400,000 shares banished to over-the-counter trading...
...doctors and scientists of the Wanyamwesi belong to a secret association called the Empire of the Snakes. Mr. Carnochan became a member, received the guild name Young Python, rose in knowledge and proficiency until only Kalola, the late great emperor of the Snake-Men, out ranked...