Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general impression in London was that Dr. Schacht returned to Berlin at week's end emptyhanded. (His "private visit" had included a secret conference with U. S. Lawyer George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees.) If Dr. Schacht had any hopes that Britain would call off her trade war with Germany, he must have been disap pointed when the House of Commons unanimously advanced through its second reading a new Export Credits Bill, which raises from $250,000,000 to $375,000,000 the amount of obligations the Government can incur in "insuring foreign trade" and provides...
...secret around Washington, however, that Joe Kennedy was in for an admonition for publicly expressing views like those that Messrs. Wilson and Phillips held in private. For Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were irritated by Joe Kennedy's speech at the annual Trafalgar Day dinner of Britain's Navy League, praising Neville Chamberlain for the Munich deal. To Secretarv Hull's mind that excursion into British politics was as bad as if the British Ambassador to the U. S. had intervened in a scrap between Republicans and Democrats...
...Georgian peasant like Stalin, Beria in 1917, when still a student joined the Georgian Communist Party, then presided over by Stalin. Until last summer all his work was in the Transcaucasian republics, especially Georgia, where he headed the secret police for 16 years. He is known as the "Stalin of the Caucasus." Now 39, he is one of several younger officials recently given high government posts which the oft-purged older generation of Bolsheviks is apparently either incompetent or afraid to fill...
Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...
...YORK--George Burns, the "straight" half of the famous vaudeville and radio comedy team of Burns & Allen, walked into federal court today and pleaded guilty to a secret indictment charging him with smuggling $4,885 worth of jewelry into the country as presents for his wife, Gracie Allen...