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Word: departmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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No one had forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

¶ A task dear to the President's heart last week was laying the cornerstone for the new Department of Commerce Building (TIME, May 6). He made a speech, wielded the same trowel George Washington used in laying the cornerstone of the Capitol (1793).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Last week Sir Esme made the British Embassy dry. He did it voluntarily, without pressure from the State Department, by refusing to sign any more requisitions for liquor importations. The Drys hailed him as a "great good fellow." South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease, prime agitator for Dry embassies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dry Diplomacy | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

English is above all a cultural subject; it deals with all ideas that are capable of beautiful expression. An intelligent man who has dedicated four years to its study should come out with a mind rich in ideas, with a deeper knowledge of life and the meaning of life. Of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BARREN FIELD | 6/13/1929 | See Source »

In its fear of being too easy, the English Department has placed its emphasis on stupidity. In its desire to penalize the lazy scholar, it has penalized the man of intelligence. It has made itself a rigid schoolmaster for the stupid and the uninterested, forgetting the education is for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BARREN FIELD | 6/13/1929 | See Source »

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