Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...keener feeling for the popular mood than Franklin Roosevelt. His dramatic destroyer-bases deal was received with cheers that drowned out criticism of the secret and questionable method by which it was carried out. Last week signs were not lacking that once again the President might be planning a coup to be justified later by expediency...
Whereabouts of Their Majesties' own children was officially secret but they were known to be "out of London" and on Sunday Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose went to church with their parents in the Chapel Royal at Windsor Castle. Princess Elizabeth is said to be the only heir to the British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect...
Jansen now creates all his own illusions. His inspirations come to him in flashes, but the work of putting a trick together takes many months. In order to keep his methods secret, he farms out a piece of an illusion to one assistant, another piece to another, then puts them together in private. Not since 1927 has he performed in the U. S. During the interim he toured the world. He was in Berlin when war broke out. Promptly the Nazis ordered him out of Germany. Says he: "That monkey in Germany cost...
Call to Arms. Stage-wise Almazánistas picked up their lines. While Government forces hunted its secret meeting place, the rump Congress whipped out a manifesto of its own. Reiterating Almazán's charges of Communism, it thought up some new angles, accused the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) of 12,000 political murders, among other crimes, concluded with a call to arms against Cárdenas...
...Macassar. The Netherlanders have long anticipated such an attack. The Borneo oil ports have been mined and studded with artillery for several months, and oil wells outside both Tarakan and Balikpapan have been prepared for firing. Borneo refineries have been moved to Palembang on Sumatra. For about a year secret airfields have been under construction...