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Word: secretly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than last week. Hurry up calls from Washington sent Ambassadors Joseph P. Kennedy (London) and William Bullitt (Paris) hustling back to the White House from vacations in Florida. Ambassadors rarely appear before Congressional committees, and then only before foreign affairs committees. But Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt were promptly closeted in "secret" session with a joint meeting of the House & Senate Military Affairs Committees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms & the Congress | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Secret" Congressional hearings are seldom secret long. Duly published were reports that Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt foresaw war in Europe within the year, that Germany has 6,500 new planes, 3,000 usable old ones, and can build 1,200 a month. Explaining that French resistance to Mussolini held the chief threat of war, Mr. Kennedy was reported as saying that in order to appease Adolf Hitler the British would even allow him to put a base in Canada (which Franklin Roosevelt swears to defend). This Mr. Kennedy quickly denied. A story he did not deny was that much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms & the Congress | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Nazi ticket in November 1932-the last free election in Germany -are converts to Naziism. There is still an underground opposition to Hitler which all the Führer's Horst Wessels and all the Führer's men (5,000,000 storm troops, party workers, secret police) have not stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Underground Outcroppings | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Nazi officials barred the public and foreign newsmen from the trial, permitted German correspondents to attend only "on certain days" and, at first, attempted to keep the charges on which the prisoners will be sentenced a secret. Finally, they approved a communiqué which announced that the defendants had "agitated against the political and economic aims of the Nazi State and grossly insulted the leading personalities of the Third Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Underground Outcroppings | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Marvin III, 26, took it to the Detroit Institute of Arts to arrange for its exhibition. Director Wilhelm Valentiner, dazzled by the reality of Artist Haeberle's currency, particularly a life-size 1886 five-dollar bill, advised consultation with Federal authorities. Assistant Deputy William A. Carlson of the Secret Service took one long look at Changes of Time, confiscated it under Sections 175 and 177 of the Federal Criminal Code (passed in 1909) which make it unlawful to design, engrave, print or in any manner make or execute anything in the likeness of any obligation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eyefooler | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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