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Word: bureau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholics, however, have feared Federal interference with parochial schools and it has been their influence largely, etc.,". You should have said that it was the opposition coming from the Catholic Hierarchy, who are fundamentally opposed to all public schools, that is largely responsible for keeping "Education in a bureau under legislative lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Newton of Minneapolis, to be a $10,000 Presidential secretary. Ten years a Minnesota member of Congress, Mr. Newton will now leave the Capitol to serve as White House contact-man with the many scattered independent executive bureaus and commissions.* Big, burly, strong-voiced, he directed the Speakers' Bureau in Chicago for the Hoover campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...mills and coal mines. It is, in fact, found wherever gas is used. Unfortunately there are new poisons appearing all the time, but there is no governmental agency to investigate them. If a manufacturer wants to find out the quality of a rubber solvent, he can write to the Bureau of Standards; if he wants to find out the effects the solvent will have on his workmen, however, he is at a complete loss. Consequently he starts to use it cautiously and instead of using guinea pigs and rabbits, human beings are experimented upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Hamilton Blames World War for Breakdown of Health Services-Describes Work of League Health Committee | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

Additional guidance for news folk was supplied from Washington, D.C., last week, by the Bureau of Publicity and Information of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, in the form of a ten-page mimeographed handout. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Politics Allowed | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Margaret Sanger, chief U. S. prophetess of Birth Control, is now devoting herself to the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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