Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sued. Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, as chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, was made the defendant. The Government claimed the invention because it had been perfected while the inventor was on active duty, because he had been educated at the U. S. Naval Academy at Government expense. Justice Stafford held that the Sibley case had closed to question the right of service men to take out patents. Hoping perhaps to overthrow the Sibley precedent as well as escape paying the Fiske damages, the Government prepared to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court...
...From the Bureau of Engraving & Printing to the great Federal Reserve Banks throughout the land, from the Federal Reserve Banks down to the tiniest of local banks have lately been moving hundreds of thousands of what looked like shoeboxes, neatly wrapped. But no shoes were ever so well guarded with firearms, were ever so eagerly received by bank tellers. All the boxes contained money-crisp new paper currency which the U. S. had, over a two-year period, manufactured to substitute for the bills now in circulation. For the first time in 66 years the U. S. was changing...
Such were the problems and exercises suggested last week by the U. S. Prohibition Bureau in a broad plan for teaching school children throughout the land "the facts of Prohibition." To collect and disseminate "the facts" Congress had appropriated $50,000. To Miss Anna B. Sutter, Chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Division of Statistics and Education, fell this money and she it was who prepared a course of Prohibition instruction to be placed in all schools. Much to Miss Sutler's chagrin the Government's venture into pedagogy was short-lived...
Miss Sutter, now 35, was once a Pennsylvania school teacher.* She entered the Prohibition Bureau in 1922 when Roy Asa Haynes, a "loan" from the Anti-Saloon League, was its director. Mr. Haynes. zealot, yearned to-"sell" Prohibition to the country by direct advertising, by special school courses. Miss Sutter shared his ardor but it was not until this year that Congress supplied wherewithal for the experiment. She had prepared a mass of Dry material which she was to take to the National Education Association's meeting last week in Atlanta when, a little prematurely, she revealed her purpose...
...London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were aboard, did not consult the weather bureau regarding weather conditions, did not carry suitable tools, and did not make adjustments for changing the radio receiving set into a transmitter, which would have enabled them to communicate with the outside world." Also, inexplicably, they did not use their oil for smoke signals. Rebuked, they immediately started for London...