Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Roosevelt last week fired two barrels at unhappy Mr. Johnson, unhappily for the War Department did not fire either Mr. Johnson or Mr. Woodring. Somewhat musty ammunition for the first shot was supplied by Secretary Woodring himself. At a Cabinet meeting he brought to Mr. Roosevelt's attention...
Discredited Mr. Johnson canceled an engagement to address the American Legion in Chicago (see p. 17) and dashed to Washington, where his colleagues were waiting to see whether he would resign. When he showed himself at the War Department, he did not act or look like a whipped pup in...
Crisis in Crisis. All this crystallized an issue far more momentous than personal discord in the War Department. That issue was: Who is going to run U. S. War Economy-New Dealers or Businessmen, "Liberals" or "Conservatives?"
This hopeful suggestion, unrealistic as a poppy dream and sadly typical of Chinese politics, quickly got two rude wake-up knocks. The U. S. State Department was not disposed "to regard the suggestion seriously." The Japanese Embassy in China was disposed to regard it as ridiculous. "Wang's statement...
It was for another American-the U. S. Naval Attaché in England, Captain Alan G. Kirk-to give Britain the last, happy word in the Ark Royal dispute. Capt. Kirk reported to the state department that in the course of a "routine official visit" to the Fleet, he attended...