Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>After 21 years in the Commerce, Treasury and Justice Departments, Bertha Lonergan, salary now $1,620 a year in the Department of Justice: "We old warhorses" are passed over for younger, prettier girls such as Miss Margaret Stanley (a niece of Special Assistant Attorney General William Stanley) with no Civil...
By that time humanitarians were thoroughly aroused. In Boston, State Senator George Krapf filed a bill ordering the State Conservation Department to "preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers...
But Frémont's life has a freshness and enthusiasm rare in the records of U. S. public men. He was a galloping, theatrical character-when his first daughter was born, he spread a ragged, wind-whipped flag over Jessie's bed, saying, "This flag was raised...
The appointment of Mr. Hicks to a position in the department of English could be respectfully asked merely on the basis of his recognized scholarship in the field on greatly strengthened by the success as a teacher which led 250 students to put their names to a petition demanding his...
The Committee's warning against the "second rate heretic" does not apply to Mr. Hicks, who is indisputably of the first calibre. Certainly his views are now "inadequately represented" in the English department, and he can be justly called a "thoughtful rebel," a type of scholar whom President Conant declared...