Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was "old Colonel Mulberry Sellers." Nominee Smith used him constantly. Example: "General Lord [of the budget bureau] holds up the data in his hand like this, and in the manner of Colonel Sellers who said: 'Nine million people in Africa have sore eyes. Buy this little package' he says. 'By our industry we have saved...
...Bureau of Vital Statistics, New York Department of Health...
This national intercollegiate organization would accomplish three main purposes. First, it would serve to keep the college Flying Clubs of the country in contact with each other, and as an authority for calling them together for conferences. Second, it would serve as an information bureau to aid in the forming of new clubs, and give advice as to methods of finance and operation. Third, it would serve as a governing body for intercollegiate competition, and would help to spread interest in aviation among the colleges. In general, it would the intercollegiate aeronautics together into a compact form with a permanent...
...justice to some of the poorer diplomats in Paris, the State Sevres Bureau indicated that they have "double exchanged" principally when driven to do so by the necessity of giving a sumptuous and costly wedding (or other) present...
Concert Managers. Wolfsohn Musical Bureau (oldest in the U. S.) sold out to Concert Management Arthur Judson, Inc. (most potent); at the same time Arthur Judson's affiliated Judson Radio Program Corp. bought out Adams Broadcasting Service...