Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶The movement of diplomatic liquor from the Port of Baltimore to Washington's embassies and legations was badly snarled by the Five & Ten. The State Department ruled that non-diplomatic truck drivers were liable to be arrested, and advised foreign representatives to drive their own trucks. Sixty cases...
Since 1920 the Department of the Interior has been freely passing out neat permits, at the rate of about 6,000 per year, which set inquisitive oil drills a-rattling on the public domain. Above most of these drills were "wildcatters," adventurous independent prospectors, sending their small assets down the...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur promptly picked a committee of three to sift outstanding drilling permits. They were: Commissioner of the General Land Office William Spry, Director of the Geological Survey George Otis Smith, Interior Department Solicitor Edward C. Finney. They will revoke permits which have lapsed or under which...
But her conduct was "reprehensible" in the findings of special-Assistant-to-the-Attorney-General Pierce Butler Jr., son of Associate Justice Butler of the U.S. Supreme Court, who last week finished a thoroughgoing review of the Barnett case. Mr. Butler found: 1) the Interior Department had no power to...
De Sibours. A terrific Burmese storm last week discomfited Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife, daughter of London's department store tycoon, Harry Gordon Selfridge. The de Sibours are flying around the world. After landing at Moulmein, near Rangoon, the couple took off in frisky weather, attained Bangkok...