Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The State Department wanted the law discretionary; Secretary Hull sought to have the law read: "The President may proclaim." Without enthusiasm, Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill that came to his ship in the Gulf of Mexico May 1, 1937 - and the word was "shall." Last week the President spoke from...
> The U. S. State Department opened direct negotiations with Colombia in an effort to persuade the Colombian Government to oust 20-odd German pilots, said to be German reserve officers, from service on the Scadia Airline, whose routes fly close by the Panama Canal.
Discussing the ability of the nation's industries to undertake the war load, Colonel Rutherford said that in a two-year major war "expenditures for the War Department alone might total $12,000,000,000-$4,000,000,000 possibly in the first year, and $8,000,000,000 in...
In a seventeen-year survey of the munition potentialities of American industries, the War Department studied 20,000 plants and found 10,000 suitable for war production. Full cooperation was received from owners and staffs of the plants, many of them assuming heavy personal expense in aiding the investigation and...
Announcement was also made of the stamp that has just been issued by the Post Office Department commemorating the first piece of printing over done in this country. This event took place in 1639 in the home of Harvard's first president, just three years after the founding of the...