Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported some slats to be missing from a bed in the Senator's room. The house carpenter did not get around to the job until late. The Senator, who received his callers in an oldtime full-length nightshirt (Ku Klux Klan uniform), acted most strangely. Handy upon his bureau, the men noticed, was a pistol...
...entrance forced open, when she arrived at the house early one morning. On the kitchen table were scattered miniatures with their valuable settings ripped off and a chain of room keys which belonged in a buffet drawer. Upstairs, in the bedrooms, furniture had been overturned and broken, closets and bureau drawers had been ransacked. Yet the housekeeper and six servants remembered hearing no unusual noises that night. No footprints were found in the garden. Two private watchmen in the street saw no intruder enter the house. Art objects and furnishings were missing, but jewels had not been disturbed...
...ways, light and dark, of Southern Republicans. He it was who, last week, immediately after the Anti-Smith Democrats had said their say for Hoover at Asheville, N. C. (see p. 9), was appointed a "special assistant" by National Republican Chairman Dr. Work. He will have a Southern Republican Bureau. He will have money to spend...
Means was not involved in the Veterans' Bureau scandal. The name in that was Forbes, whose term at Leavenworth Penitentiary ended last winter...
Leaping from their seats two white clad internes picked up a stretcher and rushed into the Bureau of the Union State Political Department, notorious as the "Cheka" or O. G. P. U., the dread police-spy service of the Soviet Union...