Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of these cinema taxpayers were only too anxious to meet large penalty assessments rather than criminal charges. A large migration from Hollywood to the Treasury Department may be shortly anticipated.
Very politely the War Department called to Gen. Bullard's attention Special Order 600-10, June 30, 1925, which reads: "Officers of the Army will not use or permit to be used their military titles in connection with commercial enterprises of any kind."
For ten years Newton Diehl Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, has been running away from a Distinguished Service Medal. Last week he was finally cornered in his old office at the War Department and not once but four times was the decoration pinned upon his coat.
Secretary of War Good pinned on the medal. Mr. Baker made one last wriggle of modesty by saying: "I deeply appreciate the honor. . . . However, I do not consider that I am personally being decorated but feel rather that the decoration is being conferred upon me as a representative of the...
¶The U.S. Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA...