Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On suitable occasions, the J. L. Hudson Co., biggest department store in Detroit, displays on its Woodward Avenue facade a gigantic Stars and Stripes, publicized by them as the largest flag in the world.
Like most other expanding U. S. cities, Fort Wayne, Ind. (Pop.: 115,000) suffers from growing pains.* An up-&-coming industrial community (automotive, agricultural, electrical equipment), its increasing land values have kept some of its poor underhoused, encouraged some of its rich to hold available outlying land for development. Mightily...
Self-criticism is a near-fetish in the new army. ". . . We are training under tactical regulations and with materiél that are almost wholly obsolete,'' Major General Lynch wrote in the current Infantry Journal. "There should be no hesitancy in moving at once to a radical revision...
War & Politics. The then Acting Secretary of War was amiable, politically adroit Harry Woodring, ex-Governor of Kansas and ex-State Commander of the Legion. He was in the War Department partly because he was an Original Roosevelt Man in 1932, partly because the Legion had by then taken unofficial...
On excellent talking terms at the White House, Louis Johnson had a neat if ambiguous understanding with Franklin Roosevelt. From the day that he took over his pleasant office in the State, War & Navy Building next door to No. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the Department's No. 2 Man has...