commissariats

"The Scouts assisted from the beginning, from seven in the morning until twelve at night, carrying messages, sometimes containing state secrets, letters, etc., from the Duma to the different branches of it called commissariats, and back again.

Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

There were also office positions in the battalions and the commissariats, and jobs as radio operators, which were highly prized in spite of, or because of, their relative insulation from battle zones.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

An amendment to the constitution granted separate commissariats for defense and for foreign affairs to each of the constituent republics.

1944, Feb. 1 2001

An amendment to the constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics granted separate commissariats for defense and for foreign affairs to each of the constituent republics.

i. Russia (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Successor States) 2001

At least three agencies, VIAM, TsAGI, and NISO, plus engineers working out of other commissariats, are even now in Soviet-occupied Germany with lists of personnel and equipment to be taken east.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Himmler was not present, but Goering, Rosenberg, and Bormann all took part with vigour, and there were some undignified scenes — particularly when it came to selecting the names for the actual commissariats, or regional governorships.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Lengthy correspondence took place between Riga [Lohse's headquarters] and the four general commissariats on the most trivial administrative problems.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Himmler rapidly forced the pace and tried to extend the "talks" into a general agreement that the Army would be left as undisturbed master of the forward zone, "with the SS as a free corps in effect responsible for the New Order in the East ... the SD would be advance teams of the future commissariats."

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Its value in the eyes of practical as well as scientific men is sufficiently demonstrated by its increasing use in naval and military commissariats, in hospitals, and in public institutions of all classes.

The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head

British armourers, traced routes, planned commissariats, and most of all drew from far and near soldiers of fortune to captain a hopeless cause.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather