Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...National Guardsmen patrolled the area with fixed bayonets. An Army patrol boat stood watch a stone's throw out in the St. Lawrence River. And Hawk-eyed, lanky Ed Starling, chief of the White House secret service detail, soon had the Presidential special hauled out of the ingrown Ogdensburg Yards-the day before he had spotted two huge gasoline storage tanks between the train and the river. It was pulled to a safe, secluded, heavily guarded siding at Heuvelton, N. Y., where there were neither tanks nor moving railway traffic...
...place in the House of Commons at the foot of Big Ben's tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain, Laborites had insisted...
Thousands of moths whirred dizzily around the floodlights, and the heavy dew of midsummer was in the air when a portable ramp was lifted from the baggage car, fitted to the President's Pullman (the Roald Amundsen) and tested. Then a big Secret Service car (District of Columbia license 104) rolled down the cindery hill road from the village, heading a small procession. The villagers, mostly Republicans (they were saying so all evening) rattled a few handclaps as Eleanor Roosevelt, in a loose, flowered green dress, stepped out first and walked around to stand beside the ramp; rattled again...
...relief fund (except to continue helping Great Britain, perhaps send medical supplies, baby food, etc. to unoccupied France). And Washington had no doubts about what Britain would say, if she were asked to give up the blockade, her best weapon against the Nazis. Back from a secret mission to London on behalf of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Manhattan Lawyer William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan last week brought word that the British would seize and intern any U. S. ship which tried to pierce the blockade...
...secret is it that Lou Maxon got most of his big accounts by first soliciting only the nickel-and-dime end of their business: direct-mail advertising. The rest of the account followed. Today, word that Maxon's is doing a direct-mail campaign for another agency's client is enough to send shivers up and down that agency's spine. For Philadelphia's austere, venerable N. W. Ayer & Son, the shivers materialized last week. From Ayer, which handles the rest of Ford Motor Co.'s national advertising, (McCann-Erickson has the branch advertising...