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Word: departmentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The fire department had ordered installation of automatic sprinklers in the studio which Pathe officials resisted on the claim that no more than five inflammable film reels (the legal limit) were stored there. In the fire ruins Police Commissioner Whalen dramatically counted out 150 blistered cans of film reels.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Pathetique | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

General James Guthrie Harbord, President of Radio Corp., opposed a Federal Communications Commission, suggested instead a Cabinet Department of Communications.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Monopolies Wanted | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Trade Scouts. To open up new commercial fields abroad in which the Dollar may grow and thrive is the duty of the Department of Commerce's trade scouts?56 men in two classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Looking pale and slightly shattered after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Foul Purpose | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Last week the Department of State was moved to issue a public warning against a new international racket. By smooth-tongued "agents," many U. S. citizens have been convinced that they are heirs to large British estates ?the buccaneering gold of Sir Francis Drake, the "Blake millions," the "Townley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: International Racket | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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