Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near & dear to the heart of Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce was that Department's Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. When he became President he continued to build it up and expand its functions into a world-wide organization primarily interested in helping the U. S. businessman sell his goods abroad. If Johannesburg wanted washing machines or Brisbane underwear or Budapest typewriters or Edmonton corkscrews, what came to be known as "Hoover's Foreign Legion" would hear of it first and flash the news to the Department which then broadcast trade orders...
...civil service examination to the Postmaster-General who does the naming from a list of the three highest eligibles for each job -the Rule of Three. Historic years in civil service reform: 1883-Civil Service Act passed under Chester Arthur. 1893-96-Grover Cleveland fought his great fight to expand the classified service. 1912-William Howard Taft put all fourth-class postmasters under civil service. 1917-Wilson required civil service tests for all postmasterships, with appointment limited to the high man. 1921-Warren Harding revoked Wilson's "high man" policy, inaugurating the Rule of Three which left the President...
Three days later Chancellor Hitler's personal newspaper, Der Volkischer Beobachter, sounded a German call to Empire worthy of rash Kaiser Wilhelm II. "The great events that expand the scope of history," said the Chancellor's organ, "take place upon the sea. It is the sea that creates world powers." Praising present-day German pocket battleships as superior to foreign fighting craft. Herr Hitler's paper cried: "We need not be anxious! . . . Today, modern naval tactics enable Germans, with their superior capacity for leadership, to escape the monotony of bombardment of the enemy fleet and to succeed...
...conclusions and recommendations: "President Roosevelt's abandonment of the gold standard and steps to expand credit were absolutely necessary. The plans to which our Government is now committed, for arresting the deflation and bringing about some rise in prices, and for lowering trade barriers, are sound and wise and go to the root of the matter...
...took seriously a conversational suggestion by the late Editor William Thomas Stead of the British Review of Reviews that the British Empire join with the U. S. Republic under a constitution based on the U. S. Cried Rhodes: "I take it-I take it! ... Dear me, how ideas expand. I thought my ideas were tolerably large, but yours have outgrown them. Yes, yes, you are quite right!" So Cecil Rhodes set up a ?1,000,000 trust fund (now grown to ?2,000,000) to bring 68 young men annually from the colonies, from the U. S. and Germany...