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Word: departmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Democrat seeking office is William J. Foley, whom Mr. Curley referred to as "the Dumb Dora of Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTTEN APPLES | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

In the gloomy old State Department Building many a window stayed lighted all night long last week while clerks decoded a stream of cables that poured in from abroad. Across the street in the White House, foreign words and wars were the main concern also of the man who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Peace Postscript | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

In Chicago he had used the words "quarantine" and "concerted effort," which gave isolationists and passive-peace advocates a jolt. They were a jolt also to many a bespatted dignitary of the State Department. For although the State Department is split over the proper course to be pursued, none of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Peace Postscript | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

The scheme was discovered when mail began coming to the Dean's Office addressed to the bogus faculty member. At the same time the Reverend Remsen B. Ogilby of Trinity College, Hartford, complained to the Department of Justice that the same man had been representing his college falsely to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEK FORGER FOR SELLING BOOKS AS HARVARD AGENT | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Moreover the forger of the letterheads made the betraying slip of saying "Division" instead of "Department of Government," as it is on the genuine stationery.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEK FORGER FOR SELLING BOOKS AS HARVARD AGENT | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

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