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The Office of Children's Issues is an agency of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which in turn is part of the U.S. Department of State.The Office of Children's Issues was created in 1994 under the leadership of Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mary Ryan and that of her successor Maura Harty. [1]
After a series of tragedies, including the deaths of her sister and mother, and her husband’s suicide, Holt and her sister’s children moved to California. [2] There, she married a widowed scientist named Theodore Heineman. [2] The Protective Agency for Women and Children was founded in 1886, and Holt was appointed as a supervisor.
Sen. Harry S. Truman visits his mother in Grandview, Missouri, after being nominated the Democratic candidate for vice president (July 1944) Martha Ellen Young was born in Jackson County, Missouri, on November 25, 1852, to Solomon Young, a successful farmer who also had a business running Conestoga wagon trains along the Overland Trail, and his wife Harriet Louisa Gregg.
And women and children generally pay an outsized price in crises: The death toll from Israel's bombardment of Gaza tops 18,700 — around two-thirds of them women and children.
The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was organized by President Harry S. Truman on December 1, 1950, through Executive Order 10186, [1] and became an official government agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951. [2]
The commission issued recommendations for eliminating waste, fraud and inefficiency, consolidating agencies, and strengthening White House control of policy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With the impetus of the Hoover Commission, the Reorganization Act of 1949 , (Public Law 109, 81st Cong., 1st sess.) was approved by Congress on June 20, 1949. [ 3 ]
Executive orders are issued to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself. [1] Presidential memoranda are closely related, and have the force of law on the Executive Branch, but are generally considered less prestigious. Presidential memoranda do not have an established process ...
By 1947 the United States found itself in a Cold War struggle against the USSR.With White House assistants Clark Clifford and George Elsey and State Department official Ben Hardy taking the lead, the Truman administration came up with the idea for a technical assistance program as a means to win the "hearts and minds" of the developing world after countries from the Middle East, Latin America ...