Word: secretariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relationship between the President and his Press photographers had cooled since then appeared in Manhattan last month when he went to dedicate the American Museum of Natural History's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall. Wanting something fresh and topical, cameramen were ordered by the White House secretariat to picture the President in only one pose, while speaking. They turned in no photographs...
That the White House had blundered in composing President Roosevelt's letter to the clergy became painfully plain when it was discovered that his secretariat had plagiarized almost word-for-word from an appeal sent to Wisconsin pastors last March by Governor Philip Fox La Follette. That the secretariat had muffed the preparation of a mailing list of "representative clergymen" was revealed not only by the Eaton incident but by a Kansas City preacher who announced that twelve copies of the letter had reached his church, one for every pastor who had ever tended the flock. That President Roosevelt...
...sides of the issue, have all been in more or less direct contact with Ethiopia: Lieutenant Colonel Francis T. Colby, late Major in the Regular Army and sportsman and traveller; H. E. Signer Daniele Vare, formerly Italian Minister to China and former member of Political Section, League of Nations Secretariat; Peter Koinage, formerly resident of Kenya, South Africa, whose father is a tribal leader of three million people Hiving near the Ethiopian border; Captain G. F. Sherwood, reserve Officer in the British Army who commanded native regiments in the German East African Campaign...
Worse was yet to come. As soon as the President's letter-to-preachers came to light, it was discovered that in composing it some loafer in the White House secretariat had, in four paragraphs out of six, plagiarized almost word-for-word a similar appeal sent out to Wisconsin pastors last March by enterprising Governor Philip Fox La Follette...
...citizens and their goods are concerned. U. S. consular officials in Germany inclined to believe last week that the revolving fund will be used not so much to dump in the U. S. as in countries with which the Fatherland has clearing agreements. According to the plausible secretariat of smart Dr. Schacht, nothing is farther from his high mind than dumping. He merely hopes to equalize the difference between the value of the German mark, which is relatively high because the mark has not been devalued, and the value of other currencies like the yen, pound and dollar, which have...