Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Reader Horler, author of 70 thrillers, knows, any statement about such a high military secret as the air strength of a nation at war is naturally an estimate and subject to dispute. TIME purposely avoided any figures from belligerent sources. Its figures (showing the German Air Force with 22,550 ships to 23,025 for France and Britain combined) were obtained from the best U. S. sources available and so labeled...
WASHINGTON--Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, D., Tex., of the House Judiciary Committee, today denounced amendments to the Hatch "Clean Politics" Act as a step toward dictatorship, after his group had voted to reconsider the legislation which it previously had shelved by secret ballot...
...merely a threat. The French bought obsolescent Curtiss P-36s, surprised most U. S. airmen after war came by showing that they could put on a first-class show against the more advanced Messerschmitt log. The British bought Lockheed Hudsons, North American trainers, long past the secret stage. The one-year rule was first broken last September when the French were allowed to buy a new Douglas attack-bomber. Everybody knew the reason: the Air Corps was already interested in a new and better Douglas, now in production...
...sick and tired of being brood mare to His Majesty," openly encouraged the relationship. Soon all Vienna knew of it, and approved. On the Emperor's birthday, little children would come with flowers to watch the pre-dawn passage of der alte Kaiser from his secret gate to that of "Käthi, the uncrowned Empress...
Paris Gazette tells of many others besides the Trautweins: of Wiesener, a man of talent sold out to the Nazis, who salves what conscience he has in writing a brilliant, corrupt biography of Beaumarchais, and a secret journal; of Raoul his son, a bright, sensitive young crook, who tries leading a French-fascist Youth Movement, writes a scalding novel about his father; of Elli, a "helpless" and much-helped refugee who, flufily shouldering her betters out of the way, manages to make out very nicely...