Word: bureau
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...chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, he works industriously for the development and efficient maintenance of the Army. He helped expose graft in the Veterans Bureau which sent its director, Charles Forbes, to the penitentiary. War veterans, however, are suspicious of him because of his vote against the Bonus...
...Most expensive U. S. agency: Veterans' Bureau...
When the Department of Agriculture wonders about the habits of U. S. birds and animals it asks the Bureau of Biological Survey* to report. Chief of the Bureau is tall, spare Paul G. Redington, who spends his time traveling through the wild gamelands of the U. S. and Alaska. Last week at the 16th annual American Game Conference in Manhattan, Chief Redington told some 200 game commissioners and sportsmen about an experiment the Bureau had made to determine how far migratory wild birds fly each season. First, 100,000 birds were captured and numerically leg-banded. During the subsequent seasons...
...Castle was born in Honolulu, and his father was King Kalakaua's minister in Washington. He was graduated from Harvard in 1000 and was an instructor and assistant dean here from 1904 to 1913, During the American participation in the World War, he was director of the bureau of communications of the American Red Cross. Entering the state department as a special assistant in 1919, he was gradually promoted until he reached his present position of assistant secretary of state...
...department of Political Economy of Columbia University. He has traveled widely in Europe and has had many contacts with European leaders of Labor, Socialist, and Cooperative movements. His recent books include "A History of Socialist Thought" and "Power Control" Laidler is vice-president of the National Bureau of Economic Research and chairman of the Labor Research Committee of the Rand School...