Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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B. F. SKINNER Department of Psychology University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minn.
From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest...
President Roosevelt's Post Office Department ordered all mail to Czechoslovakia held temporarily at Manhattan and Paris, until its senders could recall letters and funds they would hate to have fall into Nazi hands.
His Treasury Department ordered all imports from Czecho-Slovakia treated at once as imports from Germany, thus depriving them of tariff concessions formerly en joyed under the CzechoSlovak trade treaty.*
Colonel Hurban is a steely grey Slovak of 56, who during the Great War fought valiantly with the Russian armies* and under General Allenby in Palestine. He had just been talking to the State Department, which next day had something of its own to say about the rape of Czecho...