Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition. "Enforcement is far from satisfactory. . . . There should be an immediate concentration of responsibility by transfer to the Department of Justice of the functions now lodged in the Prohibition unit in the Treasury. . . . Control of industrial alcohol and legalized beverages should remain in the Treasury. Provision should be made for...
Before he entered Walter Reed Hospital last month to die, Secretary of War James William Good had not quite finished his first, and last annual report for his department. To his bedside before lapsing into final unconsciousness, he summoned his wife, gave her detailed instructions to be carried to his...
¶ Assistant Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, now the department's acting head reported that a quarter-billion dollars was needed to stock the Army with raw materials, unproduced in the U. S., for war-time uses.
¶ It cost $782,408,753 to carry last year's mails, of which about $560,000,000 went as pay to approximately 274,000 postal employes. For this service the public paid $696,947,577 to the Post Office Department, made up an $85,000,000 deficit indirectly through...
Professors in the Department of Economics protest against this influx of prospective millionaires. Moreover the reports of the Business School show that the previous field of concentration of their students has no effect on the quality of the work they produce. Men who concentrate in Economics for purely materialistic reasons...