Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that my son suffered from a chronic intestinal disease," complained Trotsky from his Mexican refuge. "I don't have direct data that the death of L. Sedov is the handiwork of the GPU [Soviet secret police]. . . . At the disposal of the GPU there are very exceptional scientists and technical means, which makes the problem of medical examination very difficult...
...Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles, by their economic experts. Excerpts...
...good Mississippi mud. But neither time, Technicolor nor cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy...
...trade Polish military support for Polish independence, with himself as king. To this end he had spent ten years ingratiating himself with a powerful Polish Count, whose beautiful only daughter Dzjunka he schemed to marry in order to get working capital. It was a long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen disliked still more the prospect of being freed by Napoleon at the expense of his freeing their serfs. But neither of these obstacles ruffled Rasonski's cool-headed obsequiousness toward the old Count nor his heavy gallantry...
...Ambassador to Germany who made no secret of his dislike of the Nazi regime, and who recently resigned is (1 William E. Dodd, 2 Joseph Davies, 3 Robert Marriner 4 William Bullitt, 5 Sumner Welles...