Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate he has become "a lion for efficiency, a tiger for economy, a wolf for detail." No branch of the Government was too obscure for him to explore. The U. S. Bureau of Efficiency is his legislative child. But in the confusion of Senate debate, Senator Smoot gives no hint of his great influence. His voice is thin and quarrelsome. Senatorial badgers easily fluster him. He tries to smother them under a blanket of indisputable statistics, only to scold them for their mockery of his "facts...
CARL D. RUTH The Toledo Blade, Washington Bureau...
...take it or leave it offer−and a surprisingly generous one−was made to Germany by the Allies last week, according to the press bureau of the German delegation to the second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan 14 et seq.). Whereas under the Dawes Plan the Reich is scheduled to pay in reparations $595,000,000 yearly, the Germans said they had been offered...
...Monday the Legal Aid Bureau closes its sixteenth consecutive year of service to members of the University and to a large number of Cambridge citizens who make use of it. The organization is now in the hands of its new officers, who were elected at a recent meeting: they are L. A. Blue 2L, president; C. T. Lane 2L, vice-president; E. A. Kniffin 2L, secretary; and J. E. Riely 2L, treasurer. These men will resume their work in the fall, and will continue in control till next April, when the organization again closes to allow the students to prepare...
...matter of a student's check being raised by a New York speakeasy; again it was a tenant fighting with his landlord over ill-heated rooms; and still a third time, it was a question of a $5,000 suit which was finally settled, under the Bureau's management...