Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrick Jay Hurley of Tulsa, Okla., to be Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Hurley, dapper, trim, cheerful, born in the old Indian Territory 46 years ago, began his military career as a captain in the Indian Territorial Volunteer Militia. During the War he fought through three major offensives, was cited for gallantry at Louppy, won the D. S. M. A trained lawyer, he has enriched himself in Oklahoma real estate, Tulsa banking. He is married to the daughter of Admiral Henry Braid Wilson...
...Examples: Interstate Commerce Commission, U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, U. S. Board of Mediation, National Screw Thread Commission, Board of Surveys & Maps of the Federal Government, War Claims Arbiter, Pan American Sanitary Bureau...
Very politely the War Department called to Gen. Bullard's attention Special Order 600-10, June 30, 1925, which reads: "Officers of the Army will not use or permit to be used their military titles in connection with commercial enterprises of any kind...
...years Newton Diehl Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, has been running away from a Distinguished Service Medal. Last week he was finally cornered in his old office at the War Department and not once but four times was the decoration pinned upon his coat...
Secretary of War Good pinned on the medal. Mr. Baker made one last wriggle of modesty by saying: "I deeply appreciate the honor. . . . However, I do not consider that I am personally being decorated but feel rather that the decoration is being conferred upon me as a representative of the War Department...