In a 1973 court case, a federal judge created one of the first mandated quotas when he ruled that half of the Bridgeport, Connecticut Police Department's new employees must be either black or Puerto Rican.

In 1955, the seal was put on public display for the first time in a central location in the Department's main building.

In 1916, using funds discretionary to himself, Lansing hired a handful of men who became the State Department's first special agents in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence.

Admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1967, he was appointed a Special Assistant Attorney General in 1969 and, in 1973, became the prosecutor of the Rhode Island Attorney General Department's Anti-Corruption Strike Force, a position he held until his first election as Mayor in 1974.

From 1991 to 1993, she served as United States Department of Agriculture's Deputy Secretary, the first woman appointed as the Department's second-highest-ranking official.

Justice Department's, the U. S. Justice Department's, and the FBI ’ s actions during the first investigations, alleging corruption within the agencies and a conspiracy to cover-up evidence.

Kunstler first made headlines in 1957 defending William Worthy, a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American, who was one of forty-two Americans who had their passports seized after violating the State Department's travel ban on Communist China ( after attending a Communist youth conference in Moscow ).

Perhaps ironically the Health Department's headquarters became notorious for sick building syndrome and the DHSS civil servants were moved out in the early 1990s to a new headquarters across the road, first of all to Hannibal House and then Skipton House.

Harry Jacob Anslinger ( May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975 ) held office as the Assistant Prohibition Commissioner in the Bureau of Prohibition, before being appointed as the first Commissioner of the U. S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics ( FBN ) on August 12, 1930.

The first instance of modernization came in 1952 with the introduction of the Honolulu Police Department's current badge.

In 1984, in a political move to give the majority African-American population more power in the city of Baltimore, Schaefer named Bishop L. Robinson as the Baltimore Police Department's first African-American Police Commissioner, a position previously dominated by Irish American and Italian American members of the police department.

The first season of Rescue Me debuted on July 21, 2004, and began by introducing the members of New York City Fire Department's fictional Ladder Company 62 — aka " 62 Truck "— which is quartered with Engine Company 99 and the Chief of the 15th ( later 30th ) Battalion in northeastern Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, and exploring their lives, both at home and inside the firehouse.

In 1913 Tilly Aston did teaching training and become head of the Victorian Education Department's School for the Blind, the first blind woman to do so.

He organized and participated in the first Reagan-Gorbachev summit as the State Department's top " Kremlinologist ," and as the U. S. Ambassador to Hungary helped persuade its last dictator to leave power.

Developing comments he had posted officially on May 20, Katyal issued the Justice Department's first public confession of its 1942 ethics lapse.

Devery was the Police Department's last superintendent, and first Chief of Police.

In October 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood convened the first meeting of the U. S. DOT Safety Council, formed to tackle critical transportation safety issues facing the Department's 10 operating administrations.

Munch first appears as a central character in the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street, as a homicide detective in the Baltimore Police Department's fictionalized homicide unit, which debuted January 31, 1993.

He served as the Department's first chair, from 1958 to 1960.

Great River Fire Department's first due engine being wetdown.

After the war, he served as first secretary in charge of the political section at the United States embassy in Moscow ; on the State Department's policy staff ; with the High Commission for Germany ; as director of political affairs at the German Embassy ; and finally, as counselor and chargé d ' affaires at the Peruvian Embassy, until his dismissal in 1954.

Tarakan was the Australian Services Reconnaissance Department's ( SRD ) first priority from November 1944.

A separate fund run by Leary's foundation, the Fund for New York's Bravest, has distributed over $ 2 million ( USD ) to the families of the 343 firemen killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, as well as provided funding for necessities such as a new mobile command center, first responder training, and a high-rise simulator for the New York City Fire Department's training campus.

What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.

We said there that it was necessary `` that a registrant be given an opportunity to rebut ( the Department's ) recommendation when it comes to the Appeal Board, the agency with the ultimate responsibility for classification ''.

Petitioner knew that the Department's recommendation was based not on the hearing officer's report but on the statement of the local board in his file.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

Another important motivation for the Big Dig in its final form was the abandonment of the Massachusetts Highway Department's intended expressway system through and around Boston.

He was later invited to join the Defense Department's newly-formed Think Tank project, VISTA, but was denied the necessary clearance.

In 1956, Hoover was becoming increasingly frustrated by Supreme Court decisions that limited the Justice Department's ability to prosecute people for their political opinions, most notably communists.

He was less popular among many of the Department's senior career officials, who saw him as brash.

During the LA Riots in 1992, when portions of south central Los Angeles erupted in chaos, overwhelming the Los Angeles Police Department's ability to contain the violence, the California Army National Guard and selected units of the California Air National Guard was mobilized to help restore order.

In 1956, Hoover was becoming increasingly frustrated by Supreme Court decisions that limited the Justice Department's ability to prosecute Communists.

Hinnells proposes that the early Music Department's " mixture of scholarship and cultural nationalism " in an area of music with largely unknown commercial prospects was driven by its sense of cultural philanthropy ( given the Press's academic background ) and a desire to promote " national music outside the German mainstream.

In contrast, the Music Department's emphasis on music for performance was comparatively long-term and continuing, particularly as income from recurring broadcasts or recordings came in, and as it continued to build its relationships with new and upcoming musicians.

On July 18, 2007, when MIT's Astronautics Department's Professor Dava Newman displayed a biosuit, the suit was referenced as Mobile Suit Gundam's Normal Suit is now real by various news agencies.

This restriction on the use of NIPRNET for social networking services ( SNS ) was lifted in February 2010, in a DoD Directive-Type Memorandum that outlined the Department's new stance on SNS " the NIPERNET shall be configured to provide access to all Internet-based capabilities ( including SNS ) across all DoD Components ".

In August 1941, he was given responsibility for the gigantic office complex to house the War Department's 40, 000 staff which would ultimately become the Pentagon.

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin was tasked with licensing the shelters and enforcing the new law, through the Department's Animal Protection Division.

Throughout the 1980s, the abolition of the Department of Education was a part of the Republican Party platform, but the administration of President George H. W. Bush declined to implement this idea, as he was in favor of the Department's existence, but rather reformed its activities.

Kissinger indicated he was in an inherently absurd position of either pushing his Department's views as chairman or dissociating himself from his subordinates.

Residents of the former portion of the District of Columbia that was returned to Virginia ( through retrocession ) vote under the same rules as other Virginia residents, despite a significant Federal presence, including the Pentagon, Washington Reagan National Airport, the Patent and Trademark Office, US Marshals Headquarters, Drug Enforcement Agency Headquarters, US State Department's training campus, and Central Intelligence Agency offices.

The State Department's reason for including Iraq was that it provided bases to the Mujahedin-e-Khalq ( MEK ), the Kurdistan Workers Party ( PKK ), the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ), and the Abu Nidal organization ( ANO ).

Galbraith favored détente with the Soviet Union, and was out of step with the Containment policy then being developed by George Kennan and the State Department's policymakers.

Leonore Annenberg was named by President Ronald Reagan as the State Department's Chief of Protocol as well.