Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the time Tammany decided that Hylan was becoming the butt of too many municipal jokes and replaced him with the sophisticated Jimmy Walker, Grover Whalen retired. His friend Rodman Wanamaker, who knew that besides looking the apotheosis of a floorwalker Grover Whalen had real executive ability, made him general...
But his savings were none the less real, for he took a down-at-heel city and gave it desperately needed equipment, scores of new school buildings, sewage plants and incinerators, $7,000,000 worth of snow-removal equipment, more than double the number of playgrounds and dental clinics for...
Ceremonious, courageous and irascible Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn should like ceremonious, courageous and irascible George Gordon. Cracked a State Department official two years ago when Minister Gordon was dispatched south: "When the Haitians get to know George, they'll think we have sent them back the United States...
Last week Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's summer city hall (see p. 12) was mildly excited when a letter arrived from Rafael Espaillat de la Mota, Dominican consul general in New York, announcing that President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic was presenting to Mayor LaGuardia four solenodons...
To the opinion of Dr. Hugo Eckener on the cause of the catastrophic burning of the giant dirigible Hindenburg, pronounced at Lakehurst three weeks after the disaster (TIME, May 31): A Report by the U. S. Department of Commerce corroborating Eckener's reasoning that atmospheric electricity (otherwise known as...