Word: dept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch, belonging to his son, Robert, 14, in a TIME business-reply envelope to take it to a jeweler. Accidentally, the envelope, without return address, got mailed with some letters Stetson was carrying in his pocket. Sure enough, the watch was in Subscription's "Waiting for Missing Owners Dept." Last week Subscriber Stetson was again on speaking terms with Robert: the watch was finally at the jeweler...
...America. If you have any questions about life in the Soviet Union, please let us know. We reply to listeners' questions every Saturday and Sunday in Moscow Mailbag at 9 p.m. EST. We also invite your music requests. Wishing you good listening. Sincerely yours, Radio Moscow I. Petrov, Letters Dept...
...another branch of Soviet apparatus) for control of their U.S. operations, Jake might get caught in the riptide between them, as Chambers himself had been. Although President Roosevelt and Attorney General Frank Murphy, in Chambers' opinion, were soft-pedaling Communist investigations, some branches of the U.S. Justice Dept. (perhaps the FBI) were still interested in tracking down Communists and might go after Jake if any harm came to Chambers...
...more than one reason some of them may be interested in initiating investigations of their own. One of them is engaged in such an investigation now. After all, even in non-purge years, there is frequent jurisdictional conflict 'at home,' not only between the commis, but between depts within the same commis-as my misfortunes of last year are in part a good example. It is no different in America. Do not imagine that F. Murphy is there wholly for the purpose of dampening all investigations or that the State Department can forever put the brakes on them...
...Nationalist China in the form of grants and credits totaling approximately 2 billion dollars, an amount... proportionately greater in magnitude in relation to the budget of that government than the United States has provided to any nation of Western Europe since the end of the war." (State Dept. report on China). Had our aid to China been as vigorous and pro-portional to the size of the problem as our aid to Greece. We should have poured 61/2 billion dollars into Chiang's lost cause instead of a total of 2 billion, and the Chinese Communists would now be twice...