Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Banker Harris was elected to the State Senate without opposition, presently became State Democratic Chairman. His opportunity came in 1912. He was one of the original Wilson men of Georgia, ran the state campaign of that year. In the White House, Woodrow Wilson made him Director of the Census Bureau, later put him on the Federal Trade Commission, of which he became chairman. In 1918 Senator Tom Hardwick was up for reelection, opposed by Bill Schley. The campaign was getting hot when Harris appeared with a letter of endorsement from Wilson. Harris won, was re-elected in 1924 (unopposed), will...
Responsible for Prohibition prosecutions in the District of Columbia is District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Part of the Brookhart outburst was an offer to tell Mr. Rover, before a grand jury, all that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to see if there was sufficient evidence to warrant grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward...
Last week, as it must from time to time, the Keith vaudeville circuit cleaned its houses. From orchestras and balconies were swept gum wrappers, cigaret butts, hairpins, miscellaneous and refuse. From stages were swept all manner of objectionable "gags" and "business." In other words, a Keith bureau whose duty it is to keep Keith shows moral-reverent-safe sent out a censorship manifesto prohibiting certain remarks and actions made by Keith vaudevillians. These were listed in Variety, slangy theatrical trade weekly. Sample "gags" prohibited...
...Through coöperation of the Guggenheim Fund, U. S. Bureau of Standards, U. S. Army and Navy, Pioneer Instrument Co., Taylor Instrument Co., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Bell Laboratories, Radio Frequency Laboratories, Kollsman Instrument Co., and Professor William Brown of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Paris has long been the dream of French financiers is well known," said Georges F. Doriot. professor of Industrial Management in the Business School when interviewed yesterday, "but it has hardly been as generally bruited about that those dreams have already begun to materialize, in the form of a Bureau of Business Research and a Graduate School of Business modeled after the Graduate School of Business Administration here at Harvard...