Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House ripped up the requests, or saddled the appropriations with crippling amendments. In one long, fierce, exhausting session the House made a shambles of the Administration's whole subsidy and price-control program, wiped out the domestic bureau of Elmer Davis' OWI and the National Youth Administration, and, as a final stab, killed the President's pet little bureau, the National Resources Planning Board (which is headed by his uncle, Frederic A. Delano). The "killings" were tentative, since the Senate must concur, but it is unlikely that the House will give...
These two amendments were sponsored by mop-haired, eloquent Everett Dirksen, Illinois Republican (and close friend of Earl Smith, the brains of the American Farm Bureau). The House was on a violent rampage. Even veteran anti-New Dealers warned the members they were going too far. The young Turks would not hear or heed. They had tasted blood...
...Notable was the fact that the one agency to come through with a whole skin was Henry Wallace's pet bureau, the Board of Economic Warfare, whose head, Milo Perkins, has been sedulous in heeding Congressional advice and complaints and in explaining clearly and sensibly to Congress just what he is trying...
Welcoming the new group of 100 WAVES who came to Radcliffe this week for a course in disbursing and supply was Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, director of Women's Reserves and assistant to Admiral Jacobs, head of the Bureau of Personnel, Navy Department...
...last word in Army etiquette came last week from Australia. General Douglas MacArthur, 63. played Emily Post. His confused pupil was Lee Van Atta. 24, I.N.S. Australian bureau head and ex-Hollywood juvenile (Captains Courageous...