Word: department
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likes Latin American affairs despite his inability to get Latin Americans to like him, has been working since May as chairman of an interdepartmental committee to think up things the U. S. Government can do for Latin America. Last week Mr. Welles reported to the President that 13 depart ments and agencies had thought up $998,804 worth. Samples : Agriculture can spend $75,000 for a Tropical Forest Experiment Station in Puerto Rico; Treasury, $27,714 to send a Coast Guard patrol boat and one cutter on a demonstration cruise; Library of Congress, $27,200 to show Latin Ameri cans...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Cordell Hull and a large diplomatic party will depart from here tomorrow at 11 a.m., on an historic mission designed to preserve the American continent as an "island of peace" amid a politically storm-tossed world. They are going to the eighth conference of American states at Lima...
...Union and then reassemble in front of Sever Hall about noon for the march to the Stadium. After pursuing a short policy of watchful waiting, they will enter the Stadium at 1:15 and parade until 1:30. After the game they will be dismissed until they depart for home at midnight. It is not definite how much spending money they will receive, but it is understood to be in the neighborhood of two bits, or 1800 bits...
...People "of the Hebraic race" who have settled in the Kingdom of Italy, Libya or Italian Aegean Islands since Jan. 1, 1919 were last week ordered by the Italian Cabinet to depart before March 1, 1939 or be forcibly expelled. Commented No. 1 Fascist Newspundit Virginio Gayda: "These Jews, political or racial refugees of other countries, represent a foreign and perilous body and spirit inserted in the body and spirit of the Italian nation." The decree will oust about 20,000 of the estimated 85,000 persons in Italy "born of both parents of the Hebrew race." Next...
When Caspar W. Weinberger '38 left Dunster House to depart for his home in San Francisco, California, last spring, he was in such a hurry that he left his trunk to be shipped by another...