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Meanings of War Secretary in английском

Head of a former executive department; combined with the Navy Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947.

Usage of War Secretary in английском
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Stanton is making the most efficient War Secretary we have ever had.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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I want my planners and my officers and my War Secretary to hear this.
The half-made world
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Benjamin became Secretary of War , in succession to the first War Secretary, Leroy P. Walker.
The Day of the Confederacy: A Chronicle of the Embattled South
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In September he became War Secretary, with a seat in the Whig Cabinet under Lord Melbourne.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers / Dr Lord's U...
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Next day I talked to the War Secretary.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
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In 1840 he was made War Secretary.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History
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Grantline whispered, "That's the War Secretary from Greater London."
Wandl the Invader
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In room six we stood before the War Secretary, who had arrived there a moment ahead of us.
Wandl the Invader
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I have failed the War Secretary.
The hunchback assignments
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It is as Secretary of the Navy, and particularly as a War Secretary, that you very definitely don't.
American Adventures: A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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The next day Murphree himself pleaded with War Secretary Davis for supplies and tents to be sent to Greenville.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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Lord Derby, War Secretary.
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
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Mr. Lincoln's War Secretary, Edwin M. Stanton, who had succeeded Simon Cameron, was a man of wonderful personality and iron will.
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories / A Complete Collection of the Funny...
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The Peninsular Campaign was scarcely under way when Canning and Castlereagh, the War Secretary, quarreled and the former resigned from the cabinet.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
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A quiet smile lingered on the large-featured face, with some humorous appreciation of the War Secretary's evident annoyance at this abrupt visit.
Westways: A Village Chronicle
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The ex-Scrag Amazon gave the war secretary a cool smile in return.
Torch of Freedom