Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was retirement last week for John Robbins Mohler, 68, head of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, a man who never wanted another title but that of public servant. An OWI announcement merely said that John Mohler had succeeded in his work "in spite of many obstacles." Yet in his 46 years with BAI, John Mohler had" become the archetype of thousands of Government workers who serve their country well, grinding away at their jobs, oblivious of politicians and political upheavals. He had done more than any other American to rid the country of the dread diseases that plague...
Garlic and Tuberculosis. Far more serious than tick fever was bovine tuber culosis. For years it had plagued farmers, killing their cattle. Worse yet, tuberculosis germs were transmitted to humans through cows' milk. The year he became bureau chief (1917) John Mohler swung out against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment...
...Selective Service Bureau will shift state and local quotas in an attempt to induct all available non-fathers, wherever they may reside, before drafting of fathers begins. (But non-fathers with occupational deferments will not be taken...
...Congressmen were members of a joint committee on war minerals, looking into a possible solution of the impending U.S. petroleum shortage. The show was staged by Dr. R. R. Sayers, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. But despite all the foofaraw, the Congressmen's ride was less epoch-making than it seemed. The plain scientific fact is that at the 1941 rate of consumption the U.S. is not likely to need coal for gasoline for at least 200 years. Reasons...
...season & out, Times Pundit Arthur Krock and his Washington bureau have been at great pains to explain that, generally speaking, the State Department is without flaws; and that if any little flaws have crept in, they are the work of Mr. Roosevelt, never of good, grey Cordell Hull. But this story, on the authority of unnamed officials, flatly reported that the State Department: 1) is in a sorry state of confusion; 2) is the scene of bitter personal intrigue; 3) has no coherent foreign policy...