Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era...
2) That it would be far cheaper to "buy peace" beforehand than to pay for such a war during and after it.
Ambassador Saito more or less endeared himself to the U. S. by drinking Scotch whisky and playing poker. Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi's technique is even more bland, more thoroughly Americanized than that of his late classmate at the Imperial University. His conversation, like his countenance, is smooth and affable...
George Marshall also began as a private (in 1902). But he had graduated from Virginia Military Institute, which in the Army is next best to West Point (or birth into an Army family). His great-great-grand-uncle was interested in coal and coke mines near Uniontown, Pa., where George...
*During the World War, Great Britain relied on voluntary enlistments until May 1916. In 1914, 1,186,000 volunteered in 1915, 1,280,000 In the first four months of 1916, 401,000 enlisted. In charge of the draft in Lloyd George's Government was an inconspicuous half-brother...