Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Passed a bill (twitting the State Department) to relieve aliens (such as Irishmen) from swearing allegiance to their former rulers (such as George VI) upon applying for U. S. citizenship.
> Approved the conference report on the War Department's civil functions appropriation bill ($305,188,514), sent it to conference.
> Off & on the public pay roll since 1930, when red-faced Alabama withdrew him from the Senate, has -been James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, 70, whose mortal hate & fear of the Pope of Rome used to be sure-fire political hokum. His last job, in 1937, was as a special...
Diplomatic butter in the form of $120,000,000 credit was served last March to Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha. Beady-eyed, flap-chinned General Goés Monteiro was on a military mission, returning the visit U. S. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall had just paid him...
In Paris, the French Government, although anxious to treat the matter as purely a local incident, was willing to go along with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to...