Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To threaten eventual paralysis of the entire G. M. organism this autumn, pugnacious little Walter Reuther, director of the G. M. department of United Automobile Workers, last week called 800 toolmakers in a Fisher Body plant at Detroit out on strike. Next day he called out 2,900 more in...
This week WPA and PWA investigators were swarming all over the State. The Federal attorney for western Louisiana was tracking down complaints of other diversion of WPA materials and labor. Postal inspectors were seeking evidence of mail fraud. Agents of the FBI were looking into various charges of graft and...
On January 4, 1932 out of the gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted...
Then Spaniards went to war with one another, egged on by Italy and Germany. In January 1937 a special resolution was rushed to Congress to take care of this unforeseen situation, for the Neutrality Act had no provision covering Civil Wars. It was passed at the behest of the State...
> The Government introduced in the House of Commons a bill which will authorize credits of $300,000,000 to Britain's allies. Poland will receive the lion's share of the credits (one estimate had it that the Polish loan would amount to $200,000,000), but Rumania...