Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marked by observers as a first fruit of Mr. Shouse's appearance in Washington, was the "discovery" last week by the Treasury Department of an order, signed in 1920 by Assistant Secretary Shouse, requiring customs inspection of all baggage of U. S. officials claiming "free entry." Dry congressmen with...
It was magnificent opportunity for Herr Zörgiebel to display to French and English observers the legitimate uses of his excessively military police department, actually a little army. Systematically his men attacked the Communist barricades with clubs and fire hoses, then with pistols, then with rifles, finally with machine...
When this motion dismally failed to pass, newsgatherers one and all cabled that the cardinal principle of the Hoover plan had been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down...
On successive days no small divergence in interpreting events at Geneva widened between correspondents on the spot and the press officials of the U. S. State Department. The former developed a pessimistic and the latter an optimistic view of chances that the Powers would agree to reduction of armaments. "Mischievous...
Long has the radical cried for "One Big Union," for all the Workers to be gathered together in one all-inclusive organization. Thus far, however, One Big Union for the workers has been a soap-bubble blown from the soapbox. Indeed, it is the Radical's enemy, the Capitalist, who...