Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was the kind of work that friendly, unassuming Philip Jessup had been tackling ably but not dramatically most of his adult life. Jessup served overseas in World War I in the infantry, spent his next 20 years becoming an expert on international law. As a professor of international law...
¶ Approved 356 to 9 the Reorganization Bill, which would enable the President to shake up the Executive Department as proposed by the Hoover Commission.
Ward-level thinking came naturally to Bill Boyle. Like Harry Truman, he was a product of Kansas City's old Pendergast machine. At 16, he was ringing doorbells in the old Fourth (Silk Stocking) Ward in Kansas City, later became leader there, entered the law. He was a police...
¶ Gaunt, good-looking William Walter Remington got back his $10,330-a-year job with the Commerce Department. The nation's top loyalty board had rejected ex-Red Spy Elizabeth Bentley's testimony that he was a dues-paying comrade, decided he was not disloyal.
The U.S. State Department was considering action under the U.S. peace treaty with Hungary, in which Hungary undertook to guarantee freedom of religion and expression to its citizens. The House of Representatives unanimously called for U.N. action against Hungary.