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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This would be perhaps the most intensive effort by the War Department to punish those who practiced the water cure in the Philippines.
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.
Amazingly, because of an old-fashioned bureaucratic turf war, the State Department is trying to block this legislation.
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.
The organization helped Iraq suppress Shiite and Kurdish uprisings in northern and southern Iraq in 1991 after the Persian Gulf War, according to the State Department's Web site.
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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Feith: As I explained, we had a particular requirement to review the existing intelligence, to help us develop the strategy for the Defense Department for the global 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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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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" To save for Halliburton the spoils of the war, they actually issued a memorandum from the Defense Department saying, "If you weren't with us in the war, don't bother applying for any construction.
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.
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