Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the central organization has blossomed out. Handbooks have been issued instructing Scoutmasters in all arts from raising money and handling parents, to the best psychological methods of picking patrol leaders, the proper accounting forms for Scout funds. The funds of the general organization are elaborately budgeted and solidly provided...
Year ago a disgusted Congress abolished the old Shipping Board and created a new U. S. Maritime Commission to wipe the slate clean and start afresh within one year. In the autumn, President Roosevelt appointed a temporary commission of two superannuated admirals and a man from the Treasury Department, but...
South Africa can leave its diamonds in the ground but the only way to keep coffee expensive enough to suit Brazilian growers is to burn it in big, grey-green mounds. Since 1931 Brazil's National Coffee Department has sent $250,000,000 worth of Brazil's chief...
As pets, ornaments and toys, chameleons are more popular in the U. S. than any other reptile. Like hot dogs or lollipops, they are peddled in great numbers by circuses, fairs and carnivals, mostly to people who have no idea how to feed and water them. This wholesale trade was...
Last week the City of New York defeated a $1,000 damage suit by a similar courtroom gesture. A Mrs. Marion Owens, watching some Park Department tree sprayers, was accidentally hit in her open mouth by a squirt of insecticide. Although the Park Department claimed the spray was an oil...