Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MIAMI BEACH, FLA--Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that he believed "the evidence we have submitted to the Department of Justice is sufficient to justify the deportation of Harry Bridges...
...crash put Franklin Roosevelt's new CAB on a hotter spot than ever. Thirteen of the airlines' perfect 17 months were flown under the supervision of the old Civil Aeronautics Authority. By Presidential order, CAA was taken from its independent status last May, made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried...
...rabbits were taken into Australia they proliferated enormously for lack of natural enemies. Wholesale slaughter has not suppressed them. Australia also had a distressing experience with the prickly pear - but in this case there was a happy ending. The prickly pear story, abstracted from a publication of the Imperial Bureau of Pastures & Forage Crops, was told last week in Science by Botanist Francis Ramaley of the University of Colorado...
...Committee, with Dr. Vannevar Bush, President of Carnegic Institution in Washington as Chairman, was appointed by President Roosevelt and has the cooperation of The Bureau of Standards, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council for its work, which will in no way replace but merely supplement the experiments now being carried on by the Army and Navy. It is intended merely to accelerate and increase present governmental research...
...Department Examiners moved in to investigate. While Frank O'Hearn's son and chief helper, Douglas, sought to splice the parting strands of his father's dream, Father Frank was kept from re-entering the U. S. after a weekend in Toronto. Reason: the Better Business Bureau tipped off the U. S. Immigration Service that he might have violated the law by going to Buffalo on a visitor's pass, starting a business venture. O'Hearn appealed. Insisting that the National Depository was no business venture but a "nonprofit" philanthropy, he offered to take...