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  • On March 8th Arthur Riley, an investigator from the Counter-Intelligence Corps of what was then called the War Department, turned up at Campbell's office and demanded to know the source of the information used in the Cartmill "article."

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • The reason for his appointment to, perhaps, the most responsible bureau of the War Department was a mystery to people everywhere.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • The compensations of my long delay in Washington trying to move the War Department were the opportunity it gave me to see Mr. Lincoln, to meet the members of the Cabinet, to become intimate with the New York delegation in Congress, and to hear the wonderful adventures and stories so numerous in Washington.

    My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922

  • The compensations of my long delay in Washington trying to move the War Department were the opportunity it gave me to see

    My Memories of Eighty Years 1881

  • There were no direct phone lines from the White House to Pearl Harbors, so commanders at Pearl called the War Department to relay word to Roosevelt.

    NYDN Rss David Hinckley 2011

  • There were no direct phone lines from the White House to Pearl Harbors, so commanders at Pearl called the War Department to relay word to Roosevelt.

    NYDN Rss David Hinckley 2011

  • For, though it was not then unusual to see men who were personally and politically hostile to each other holding high offices at the same time, the relation between the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State, who had charge of what would now be called the War Department, was of so peculiar a nature that the public service could not be well conducted without cordial cooperation between them; and between

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • The War Department was a civilian agency created in 1789 to administer the field army under the president (as commander in chief) and the secretary of war.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] PaulBurnett 2010

  • The War Department was a civilian agency created in 1789 to administer the field army under the president (as commander in chief) and the secretary of war.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] PaulBurnett 2010

  • The War Department was a civilian agency created in 1789 to administer the field army under the president (as commander in chief) and the secretary of war.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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