Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters had already heard about its nature. The State Department had disclosed that it expressed "the earnest hope that nothing may occur to injure the peaceful relations of Finland and Russia," and that U. S. action had been taken independently of that of any other country. If reporters could make...
In London the Berlin Chancellery's charge that British agents launched the armistice hoax was called "fantastic" at the British Foreign Office, where an official spokesman cracked: "The allegations should be dealt with in the special jokes department." Nevertheless, it was a pretty compliment, and an eminently justifiable one...
Herbert E. Bolton (history department chairman): "Excessively dull lectures; study the outline and you've got a pipe."
His Beacon Hill hideaway is popularly supposed to be a scene of secret orgies between Bill Cunningham and a mythical secretary named Ima Smack that Bill once invented to explain his delay in answering letters. One day a Boston department-store executive gave Bill a life-size wax model of...
"There was no evidence of any more than usual difference of opinion," he stated, "and in the final decision there was essential agreement. The department's recommendations were accepted by the Administration."