Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...secret out, Mr. Roosevelt told more. He had asked globe-trotting Mr. Howard to go to South America (where United Press leads the newspaper field), talk to his friends there among editors, publishers and political leaders. The assignment would take about 40 days. He had wanted Mr. Howard to find out all he could about fifth-column activities in South America. But Mr. Howard excused himself. Later that day, G. B. Parker, editor in chief of Scripps-Howard papers, revealed what his boss had written the President when he turned down...
...heard some more last week on how the Nazi "strategy of terror" works. Back from a secret mission to London, where he had been sent by Secretary of the Navy Knox, Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan wrote a series of articles on Hitler's undercover storm-troops which were enough to make a U. S. citizen's eyes pop. Collaborating with Donovan, who once commanded the famed "Fighting 69th," now practices law, was Foreign Correspondent Edgar Mowrer...
...forestall such escapes, Commandant Manuel Barres and hand-picked members of Argentina's crack motorized "Mounties of the Pampas" worked in secret for weeks, visiting ranches, hobnobbing with strangers in cafes and on street corners. When leaders of the movement had thus been discovered, he asked his superior, grim-lipped General Manuel Calderon, Commander in Chief of the National Gendarmes for uniformed reinforcements, swooped down on the Nazi suspects...
...summer dance event. Climax of the festival was a brand-new Graham ballet, Letter to the World, danced by 16 Grahamites. For it U. S. Composer Hunter Johnson had written a substantial, lengthy musical score; U. S. Scenic Designer Arch Lauterer had built an unprecedented stage load of secret panels, revolving doors and trick modernistic lighting effects. The ballet's subject: Poet Emily Dickinson, the New England spinster who never went out of her Amherst, Mass, house for 24 years, got all her excitement in her own head. Choregrapher Graham divided her ballet in half, gave the Dr. Jekyll...
...that the technique of insurrection is conspiracy. But Lenin taught his eager Bolsheviks that, besides every well-behaved, "legal" Communist Party, they must organize an "illegal," underground Communist Party. Its function, like the submerged three-quarters of an iceberg, would be to destroy in secret. Apt students of the Bolshevik art of conspiracy, as Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, were the Nazis. Soon Nazi Alfred Rosenberg modeled his foreign section of the Nazi Party after the foreign section of the Communist International. Soon Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo after Russia's G. P. U. Soon the whole world paid...