Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memorial Continental Hall, President Coolidge addressed the semi-annual business meeting of the government, de scribed and praised the work of the Bureau of the Budget...
...Indiana limestone, Tennessee marble and other indigenous U. S. building materials began to be routed last week to a parklike strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department has expanded...
...certain kind of news is called "American." Admittedly the foremost "American" editor in London is Mr. Ralph D. ("Blum") Blumenfeld of the London Daily Express. Operated by one Dave Blumenfeld, son of Ralph, is the London Feature Service. Last week this enterprising bureau cabled to the U. S. a story "not to be reproduced in the British Isles." Apparently Canadians were considered sufficiently "American" to enjoy what followed...
Automotive Engineers, in annual meeting at Detroit, were skeptical of the importance of the Mitten innovation, believed that it had been devised too late. H. C. Dickinson of the Federal Bureau of Standards argued: "Gasoline is made by cracking crude oil and the big oil companies can crack oil so cheaply now that it hardly pays to develop an automobile engine that will do this work. Besides, when the oil is cracked at the refineries, the by-products which have a market value are saved. When oil is cracked in an automobile engine it is lost...
...slightly academic incidents record the suffering which life lays bit by bit upon Esther Ralston, a Viennese servant-girl. It isn't always clear why she should bear so much-the loss of her child, the concealment of her marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef von Sternberg, director of Underworld, often gives this unusual picture the Spartan, grand...