Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebration last week of the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Secret Political Police showed further how the State ruled by Stalin has "come of age" (see col. 3). The power of the Political Police is now so ripe that their Commissar Nikolai Yezhov was able to celebrate by announcing on the dread anniversary that eight prominent Old Bolsheviks had been tried in secret, condemned to death for "treason" and secretly executed before the Soviet press was permitted to divulge even that a trial was proceeding...
...Soviet citizens the secret terror has long been far more nerve-racking than Moscow's public trials, and the 20th anniversary fusillade of eight Old Bolsheviks grimly capped the climax. The dead, all of whom according to the Secret Police confessed to "terroristic activities" and "systematic espionage," are in approximate order of importance...
...were found to contain not only the voter's name signed or printed but also such expressions as "I would give my life for Stalin, let alone my vote!" Also thousands had brought with them to the polls little notes of praise addressed to Dictator Stalin and to Secret Police Chief Yezhov and had slipped them into the envelopes in which they cast their ballots...
...Instantly the solemnity is broken. Everybody in the room jumps up and applauds joyously and stormily for the first ballot of the first general secret election under the Stalinist Constitution-a ballot with the name of the Constitution's creator...
Many a San Franciscan last week learned for the first time that one of his city's most famed financiers and business men, President Herbert Fleishhacker of Anglo California National Bank, had been sued by stockholders of the bank "to obtain an accounting and recover secret profits on behalf of said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could...