Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Not alone in ridiculing Lord Macmillan's Ministry was the House of Commons. In the Minister's own House of Lords next day Opposition Whip Lord Strabolgi poked gentle fun at him: "Lord Macmillan's position is that he is lying on his back with three Defense...
This week, like a Japanese samurai who feels himself dishonored, the Ministry committed harakiri. Its regional offices disbanded, the staff in London prepared for wholesale dismissals. A skeleton Ministry hoped to carry on as a propaganda agency; but Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was expected to announce that a new department...
Among the departments in Cornell University's College of Home Economics, one is concerned exclusively with family life. A professor in this department is tiny, motherly Mrs. Ethel B. Waring. Last week Professor Waring gave U. S. mothers a formula, in nine neat points, to solve a baffling problem...
September added over $6,000,000,000 to the value of New York Stock Exchange securities. But last week, stock prices marked time, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial leaders fiddled & fussed between the September 12 high of $155.92 and $150 (August 31: $134.41). September's stock buyers...
¶To Colorado Springs' thriving water department (also city-operated) it has paid $610,000 for use of water gathered from the sides of Pikes Peak, which turns the wheels of the hydro plants on the way down to the settling basins.