Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶Through the State Department, the President congratulated President Roberto M. Ortiz of Argentina on the signing, in Buenos Aires, of a treaty ending the Chaco boundary squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay.
¶Through the Treasury Department, the President assured U. S. miners that the Treasury will buy all silver mined by them up to midnight, December 31 (when the present law expires) even though it is offered to the Mint after that date.
Why not completeness in your Music department? You claim to "note the noteworthy" in record releases. Yet in your July 4 issue, you fail to mention the Franck Sonata in A Major for piano and violin, superlatively played by Rubinstein and Heifetz.
Other lists, compiled from booksellers' reports of the most widely-selling titles without sales figures, do not show the relative popularity of fiction and nonfiction. 2) Most best-seller lists are limited to current novels and works of nonfiction, exclude children's books and reprints, which are included...
Not once in 1,400 well-chosen words, addressed to the Mexican Ambassador, Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Nájera, did Secretary Hull so much as mention oil wells, gold mines or vast ranches. Experts of the State Department had supplied figures on Mexican expropriations of small farm holdings as...