Word: covertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church, a small Houston congregation which important churchmen lack time to visit in person. To that little church the Division of Visual Aids of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education sent talking picture equipment. The machines reproduced the gestures and words of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, and of Dr. William Ralph Hall, director of the Department of Home & Church. When hymn-time came the machine projected the words on the screen, played the music...
This broad criticism of President Hoover's No. 1 farm policy caused much covert commotion in Washington. At the White House the "palace guards" (as the Hoover secretaries and advisers are called) vowed that it was Citizen Coolidge's opening bid for presidential consideration next year. Western agrarians openly mocked the attack on the Farm Board, called Mr. Coolidge "the farmers' arch-enemy." Meanwhile most Eastern editorial comment agreed with Critic Coolidge, inveighed all the louder against price stabilization as a crook-headed economic principle on which President Hoover, sooner or later, must do a politically painful...
...McNinch, recommended by North Carolina's "lame duck" Senator Simmons, helped lead the 1928 anti-Smith movement which turned his State Republican. Senate Democrats doubted his Democracy, sought to question him on his 1930 vote. Another charge against Commissioner McNinch-which he loudly denied-was that he had covert connections with the Duke power interests and from them secured political funds, still unaccounted for, with which to combat the Brown Derby. Because of the power-&-politics nexus, all five Commissioners were ordered to appear this week before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to undergo a grilling. One prime question...
...farm relief and the tariff not in the League of Nations or the World Court. She spoke of a compromise tariff helpful to farmer and industrialist alike. What made Mrs. McCormick glum was the discovery of a widespread prejudice against a woman in the Senate. Added this was the covert opposition of many Illinois women to her because of what they considered her politically autocratic manner. Said she: "I hope nobody will vote for me simply "because I am a woman or vote against me solely because I am a woman...