Word: semisecret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet, the Secretary of State alone does not have to make an annual report on his semisecret activities. Last week the other nine members finished rendering their bulky swansongs to President Hoover or the Congress. Each told in great statistical detail how his department had weathered the Depression. Some added a cheerful chirp or two about confidence in the future and a few, despite the fact that they go out of office March 4, boldly made recommendations for new legislation. Excerpts...
Most of the abusive, threatening letters received by Poet Russell last week were from members of "The Knights of Columbanus" (not Columbus), a semisecret Roman Catholic organization founded a half-dozen years ago at Belfast. But a few persons belonging to other "deteriorated" Irish societies also seemed to feel insulted...
...openly, and the very character of their ideals makes open propaganda difficult. Whatever may be said against the secret societies of a generation ago, their members were not self-seeking and their ideals were defensible. "There has been a change . . . a distinct deterioration. "A new kind of secret or semisecret society has come into existence, whose object seems to be, by a kind of religious masonry, to procure business jobs and contracts for members, and they threaten, bully or cajole barristers, solicitors and businessmen into membership...