Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farm relief (in general)-President (resigned) James F. Reed of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation...
Cigarets. The census bureau last week announced 98 billion cigarets consumed in the U. S. last year, more than two a day for every man, woman and child in the country...
...President Coolidge viewed with alarm the Budget Bureau's report that the U. S. has a paper deficit of some 94 millions for the fiscal year ending next June 30. He said he would call together the bureau heads, preach Economy, see what can be done...
...President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act." (Nominee Robinson voted for it.) ". . . The Prohibition Bureau has been under the Treasury Department, whose head, prior to national prohibition, was largely interested in the liquor business...
Hard to resist, for Fascists, Monarchists and Bolshevists alike, is the lure of the U. S. tourist business. For many a year, Soviet Russia has looked enviously at U. S. millionaires squandering marks in Berlin, francs in Paris, lire in Rome. This year, through the tourist bureau Sovtorg-flot, the United Soviet Socialist Republics held out greedy Bolshevist hands. Concessions to arrange Russian tours went to three trans-Atlantic steamship lines (Cunard, French, Holland-American). About 700 tourists have proceeded, or are proceeding, Moscow-ward...