Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I am certain that many thousands of your readers would be interested in knowing the range of ages which the War Department has made plans to register for draft service in the event of our becoming involved in war in Europe. . . .
It is probable that the War Department has made no official announcement as to the range of ages planned for conscription and therefore you would not be able to give this information officially. However, there must be considerable "grapevine" information on the subject among Army officers, etc. . . .
Robert Donald Fitch of the State Department was at the pier in Manhattan to meet square-chinned Chief Constable Albert Canning of what is properly called the Criminal Investigation Department. He is its first chief to have risen from the ranks. C. I. D.'s Canning proceeded inconspicuously to...
Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an...
> Exhibited at Manhattan's John Wanamaker department store were five designs for nifty, economical commuters' houses which won $1,000 apiece in the biggest low-cost house competition yet held. Each was planned to be within the reach of a family man earning $2,100 a year, yet...