Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile came the House's next chance to spend-on the non-military section of the War Department supply bill. For generations, Rivers & Harbors appropriations have been prize political pork. Last week the House added $50,000,000 for flood control and navigation improvements to a $225,000,000...
Calling the infantry rate 100, Colonel Love arrived at the following index of losses for other services: machine gunners (now in the infantry) 70.12; signal corps 16.46; tank corps 15.85; artillery 11.58; engineers 9.15; medical 8.54; cavalry and quartermaster department 3.05 each; aviation and ordnance 1.83. In the World War...
The man who made St. Olaf's choir what it is is genial, 68-year-old Dr. Christiansen. The violinist son of a Norwegian blacksmith, Dr. Christiansen came to the U. S. from Larvik, Norway, went to St. Olaf College 26 years ago as head of the music department...
Unperturbed by the New Masses' revelation, the Post blandly admitted that Writer Levine had collaborated with the general, explained: "Krivitsky doesn't write English and Levine did his translating." As for Krivitsky's name being Ginsberg, the Post said: "That's quite true, but Trotsky'...
This week the State Department refused either to confirm or deny the authenticity of General Krivitsky. The Soviet Embassy said it had never heard of any such person. The New Masses stuck to its guns. The Dies Committee invited the general to Washington. The Post, pleased with all the publicity...