Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until recent years the beaver was seen only in woodsy ponds, traps, men's hats, women's sport coats, alphabet books. Three years ago he appeared in the Government's Interior Department, which employed him to dam streams, in projects ranging from erosion control to better housing...
Last week the increasingly social beaver appeared in court, defendant in a complaint brought by Connecticut's Highway Department that a dam was creating a flood danger. Connecticut's Attorney General Pallotti ruled that the dam might legally be destroyed, summarily summed up: "In the case of rational...
> The system of rationing by food cards was working so cumbrously in German cities last week that standing in long queues before food shops became the rule. Special red cards, permitting the holder to go at once to the head of the queue, were issued by the Nazi Party Peoples...
It was thirty-nine years ago when an instructor named Mr. Coolidge took his place in the Harvard mathematics department. 'Gradually the influence of his personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality...
According to the memorandum, "each man was considered on his merits, absolute and relative. . . . All the decisions reached in the spring of 1939 were made jointly by the Administration and the Departments concerned. Usually the departments were unanimous; in no Department was there more than one dissentient opinion."