Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The House, passing the Interior Department's appropriation bill, had tagged it with an amendment giving the Secretary of the Interior $250,000 to acquire by condemnation private lands in national parks, and authorizing him to incur additional obligations up to $2,750,000 to match public donations for...
But the Senate remained deaf to the President. Last week, finally, it passed (68 to 12) the cruiser-building bill with the three-year time-limit. The House shouted its approval. The bill went to the White House, whence it was brusquely despatched to the Navy Department to be thoroughly...
Last week "General" Jiron was captured by the U. S. Marine Corps' most potent bandit-catcher-1st Lieut. Herman Henry Hanneken, a blocky, clean-faced young native of St. Louis, Mo. Lieutenant Hanneken had arrived in Nicaragua just after Christmas, detailed to the nth Regiment in the Department of...
Mysterious trips to Washington followed, whispered conferences at the huge Interior Department Building-things Jackson did not try to understand. More papers were signed and everybody seemed delighted, particularly Mrs. Barnett and her Kansas friends.
Identifying planes on. the fly is far more difficult than identifying automobiles. Every plane has on the under side of a wing and on its rudder a letter and number. Those are the Department of Commerce's permit symbols. The Department has issued more than a hundred permits. Rarely...