Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In National Affairs in the April 4 issue you stated that the War Department spent $96,000 over its appropriation in giving salutes to the President and other dignitaries.
In TIME, March 21 I read that Superintendent Wegner [of Roslyn, L. I., whose "progressive" system of education was recently favorably reviewed by the New York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England...
In my opinion this is an enormous waste of money. I can't see why the War Department don't make an electrical transcription of one of these salutes and in the future merely attach a huge amplifier. . . .
"With cheap (gun) powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes (to the President) will be not 'Boom' but 'Swoosh'. . . ."
Puzzle which the U. S. State Department has been trying to solve for the last month has been: how to recognize Germany's annexation of Austria without appearing to approve it. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull solved his puzzle neatly in two simultaneous notes to the German...