Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evidently referring to shouts by American Farm Bureau Federation delegates at General Pershing last month in Chicago (TIME Dec. 26, 1927): "You're Presidential timber! You're a candidate for President!" General Pershing said: "What...
...would make merry with him. He would tower in Manhattan among financiers, and in Washington above those who were his associates when he was a Treasury "career man." Best of all, wise Agent Gilbert had contrived that he should be snug aboard the Leviathan, last week, when the Reparations Bureau released at Berlin his 237-page printed report on the third reparations annuity year (Sept. 1, 1926, to Aug. 31, 1927). Theses. As usual, the Agent General put forward in his report several explicit theses. This year they are that...
...neither the reparations problem nor the other problems depending thereon will be finally solved until Germany has been given a definite task to perform on her own responsibility, without foreign supervision and without the transfer problem." The modest Agent Gilbert envisioned and recommended the proximate abolition of the very bureau over which he presides...
...least second string great men in Russia: 1) Christian Rakovsky, recently recalled as Ambassador to France at the request of that nation, which feared him as a tireless fomenter of "The Revolution of the World Proletariat"; 2) Karl Radek, probably the most brilliant publicist of the third international (bureau for world Communist propaganda); 3) Lev Borisovitch Kemenev, onetime holder of numerous offices approximating "cabinet rank" in the Soviet Government. That these men - and Zinoviev and Trotsky - have had their careers blasted by the present Dictator of Soviet Russia, JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, is an astounding circumstance which demands explanation. Trotsky...
...Presidential timber! You're a candidate for President!" cried American Farm Bureau Federation delegates, last fortnight in Chicago, at General John Joseph Pershing. General Pershing's teeth flashed but he said nothing. Newsgatherers followed him to his hotel. Said he: "What can I say? I do not talk politics and there is no statement I can make...