Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm...
...enters frequently he is gruff and bull-voiced. Earnestness rather than humor flavors his remarks. He gesticulates freely and, when thoroughly aroused, rubs his hands together vigorously and tugs his right ear. He takes an active, if not leading, part in many movements (unemployment relief, fuel famine, Veterans' Bureau investigation, Merchant Marine development). A great political letter-writer, he keeps three special clerks to handle his mail, works at his office Sunday afternoons. His grammar is good, his pronunciation Bostonian. In private conversation his voice is soft and controlled. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: A good practical politician...
Professor Charles E. Persons, for the past year lecturer in the Department of Economics here has been appointed Expert on the Economics of Unemployment in the Federal Bureau of the Census. He will take up his new duties immediately...
...Harvard Professor Persons gave courses in Trade Unionism and Labor Legislation. In his previous career, aside from service in the Unitied States Army during the war, he has been a member of the faculties of Wellesley College and of Princeton, Northwestern and Washington Universities. At the Bureau of the Census Professor Persons will have general supervision of the census of unemployment and of special studies subsidiary thereto...
...report is soon to be published by the Bureau at the University Press, entitled "International Protection of Industrial Property", the work of S. P. Ladas, secretary of the Bureau. This study deals with the work of the Union for Protection of Industrial Property constituted in 1883 and including today 38 countries...