Word: departmentalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ To Washington last week went a diamond-studded grand cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, addressed to President Hoover. Secretary of State Stimson prepared to put it away in a department vault until the President becomes again a private citizen and constitutionally eligible to receive foreign...
The President made up his mind last week on an appointment pending since Inauguration when William Patterson MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, asked to be relieved. Mr. MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation...
Last week the President summoned to the executive offices Col. Clarence Marshall Young,* 40, lawyer, Director of the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Civil Aeronautics. Did Mr. Young want the job of Assistant Secretary? Of course he did. So on Oct. 1 he takes his promotion, to Mr. MacCracken...
Aged 53 (last spring), Dr. Empringham rented a $5,000-per-year apartment in Manhattan. Said his janitor last week: "There was a constant stream of women and girls running into the building after him. Lots of them were beauties, too. But he was never there. It got to be...
MacCracken Angry. William Patterson MacCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, after two months in Europe, was lunching on the Leviathan in New York Harbor last week. A stupid flyer, to welcome some one aboard the ship, capered and stunted so close to her that passengers fearfully ran below...