Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the State Department said it knew nothing about any Bullitt-Biddle conversation whatsoever. At week's end, the Department had received a more elaborate report on bombing from Ambassador Biddle, held it safe from press services and wiretappers.
When the U. S. Army was a peacetime starveling, this Kilkenny cat-spat was just another bureaucratic brawl. With war abroad, rearmament aswing, and the Army in expensive expansion, the case of Woodring v. Johnson is now a stench in Washington. Last week Franklin Roosevelt took a look at the...
The only war concerning the President was Depression I when Harry Woodring came out of Kansas to be Assistant Secretary in 1933. When Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936, President Roosevelt was in the midst of a re-election campaign and the easy thing to do was...
Used though they are to their private brand of internal politics, Army men are taught to expect at least a show of decent order at the top. The indecent disorder at the top of the War Department improved neither their morale nor their respect for civilian democracy. Two years between...
As though dissension in the War Department were not enough, Washington recently was treated to one of the strangest episodes in New Deal Fantasia. The President's undercover men (Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen) began to shoot at Louis Johnson who all along had been trustfully waiting for the President to...