Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy last week praised Mr. Hoover (for his measures to prevent industrial espionage), said the Department of Justice would be right behind him in the hunt on condemners of U. S. laws. Mr. Murphy also thanked the Dies Committee for its exposures, assured its Chairman...
That was 23 years ago. Last week, into Kola Bay, north of the Russian harbor of Murmansk, the U. S. freighter City of Flint dropped anchor and thereby posed for Russia a far less crucial test of its neutrality, the skill of its diplomats, the wisdom of its foreign policy...
Precedent. Last week, when Germany embarrassed Russia by anchoring City of Flint at Murmansk, the U. S. State Department moved with calm deliberation. It asked its officials in Oslo, Moscow and Berlin for information. Alexander Kirk, chargé d'affaires in Berlin, made informal inquiries, reported the German claim...
> Reported his action in a long, sharply worded communique which the State Department promptly made public, and added that he was still trying to telephone City of Flint's Captain Joseph Gainard, hardbitten Yankee seafarer who appeared in the news two years ago as captain in the Algic mutiny...
One-legged Frank Scully, who wrote Fun in Bed after 20 operations and many years in hospitals, ran for California's State Assembly in 1938 on the slogan, "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully." Though defeated, he got as reward for supporting Governor Culbert Olson the job of...