But on June 11, 1948, Charles Vogel received devastating news from the U.S. War Department.
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The engine was built in 1912 and was thought to have been commissioned by the War Department.
The long history of military spending in the United States begins with the establishment of the War Department, in 1789.
Edward Greenabaum, also of the War Department, and later to be Senior Partner of the prominent law firm, Greenabaum, Wolf and Ernst.
American industry flew right through the benchmarks set by the War Department.
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Acevedo had also provided the U.S. War Department with the commander's name.
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Magoon, Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department, wrote a report that Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published.
He turned over his findings to the U.S. War Department, and the material was used against Metz and Merz in a war crimes trial in Germany.
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He found, buried in a closet in his house, dozens of original documents that his uncle kept -- letters from the War Department, the petition to Truman and documents from Berga survivors.
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Likewise, in 1902 Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published a report by a Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department which dealt with the treaty obligations of extinct States.
Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the position of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.
The Act merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (NME) headed by the Secretary of Defense.
Martin, of the Department of War Studies at King's College London, in an interview in March.
Reports at the weekend seemed to suggest he is relishing putting his department on a war footing with teachers.
"Gulf War illness isn't some imaginary syndrome, " said Ken Robinson, the senior intelligence officer for the initial Department of Defense investigation into Gulf War illness in 1996-97.
Ministers say tackling the bug has been the biggest single project since World War II, involving every government department and business.
In 1940, when the Russians occupied Latvia, Mrs Wraga was moved to Switzerland, and after the second world war she worked for the State Department in Washington.
Its job was to review this intelligence to help digest it for me and other policymakers, to help us develop Defense Department strategy for the war on terrorism.
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After receiving a degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Shriver worked for the U.S. State Department in the Special War Problems Division from 1943 to 1945, helping former prisoners of war readjust to civilian life.
It was because we needed people looking at that intelligence, good intelligence produced by the CIA and other agencies -- we needed people looking at it from the point of view of what do we need to understand from this intelligence about these connections to allow us to develop a Defense Department strategy for the war on terrorism.
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Ambassador PIERRE PROSPER (Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, U.S. Department of State): We wanted it in Freetown.
Jim Hale asked some of his war buddies to submit letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs to support his claim for PTSD benefits.
Secretary DONALD RUMSFELD (Defense Department): Timing in war is never predictable.
Maturin was involved in wartime espionage and there is a strong suggestion that O'Brian's notorious secrecy derived from his own experience working for the Political Intelligence Department during the Second World War, supplying 'black' propaganda to undermine German morale.
These diplomatic challenges are likely to weigh down one of the most important figures in the administration, Colin Powell, and affect one of the capital's longest-running rivalries (far predating the Iraq war): the struggle between the State Department and the Pentagon.
At first, the Secretary of War, a Cabinet member who, from the start, was a civilian, was called the Secretary at War, a holdover from the Revolution but also a prepositional manifestation of an ideological commitment: the department was chiefly to be called upon only if the nation was at war.
As President Bush prepares for war in Iraq, he has allowed the State Department, whose head opposes Bush's vision, to take full control of the Israeli-Palestinian agenda.
The following year, it moved with Congress to Philadelphia and, in 1800, to Washington, where it was stored at the Treasury Department until it was shifted to the War Office.
Judge Laurence Zatkoff in the Eastern District of Michigan recently cleared the way for accelerated and wide-ranging discovery in connection with a suit brought by a Michigan Iraq war veteran, Kevin Murray, against the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve.
White House strategists see an opportunity to paint Democrats who resist the president as soft on terrorism, much as they did after Democrats objected to some aspects of the new Homeland Security Department in 2002, or to the war in Iraq in 2004.
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