Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...base of operations, the subject grew exciting when she appeared in town and registered at the Blackstone Hotel. She would see no one, until after a two-hour conference with James William Good, Hooverizer of the West, and Walter Newton, Chairman of the G. O. P. Speaker's Bureau. Emerging she was asked point-blank what her auspices were...
...recent organization meeting of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, at which Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School spoke on "Legal Aid and the Lawyer", the officers and members of the bureau were announced for the coming year...
...Leyal Aid Bureau provides free legal advice to all members of the University as well as to all people of Cambridge wio cannot afford professional lawyers. The office hours at 763 Massachusetts Avenue are from 4 to 6 o'clock and 7 to 9 o'clock every dap except Saturday and Sunday. No criminal cases are handled, but anything from arguments with landlords to divorces and automobile accidents come under the society's jurisdiction. Last year 203 Cambridge cases and 45 University cases were handled: Of the University cases, none were lost...
...concerned, the grip of that quinine monopoly has just been broken," declared Dr. Julius Klein of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce last week. There was exultation in his voice: "Up until recently the European quinine manufacturers, working under an ironclad agreement with the producers in the Indies, had things going very much their own way. The trust regulated precisely the amount of the drug that was to come upon the markets of the world. It allocated certain definite quantities to each of the consuming territories. Its dictates were imposed inflexibly. It controlled the disposition and price...
...Klein's satisfaction was natural. Two years ago his bureau had stirred the U. S. Department of Justice to bring an anti-trust suit against 27 Dutch, British, Japanese, German, French, Swiss and U. S. firms who were restraining the quinine trade...