Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before he left the President had several matters to consider. Foremost among them was how to finance the U. S. Government and its defense program next year. To an informal White House supper went Congressional chiefs of the revenue committees, Treasury and Budget Bureau heads: Mississippi's Pat Harrison, Georgia's Walter George, of Senate Finance; North Carolina's Robert Doughton, Tennessee's Jere Cooper, of House Ways & Means; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan; Budget Director Harold Smith. Their problem was to raise a hoped-for $10,000,000,000 of Federal...
...professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles, fighting little Davey O'Brien (weight 151 lb.) not only bounced intact out of every tackle but set a new record by throwing 33 successful forward passes. Then he hung up his jersey, prepared to go to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Negro paid his dollar. Then he took his "checkbook" to the nearest liquor store, which promptly called the Better Business Bureau, set Manager Gordon Smith investigating. The National Depository of America, he found, is the brain child of Frank O'Hearn, a former Toronto broker. Since 1932 his avocation has been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody...
...course it may be that such a committee is not needed at all, that Congress should drop the whole idea of a separate investigation and leave the job to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Attorney-General Jackson has proclaimed the superiority of this agency in combatting sabotage. But J. Edgar Hoover, the idol of all American boys from sixteen to sixty, has a healthy thirst for publicity in his own right; and his record in the "Red-scare" of the last war plus more recent incidents like the "Detroit recruiting case" afford little comfort. On the other hand, his position...
Last year through the bureau some 328 entertainment jobs were secured for the student performers, earning about $5,000 toward their college expenses. At present some 150 men are registered with the entertainment bureau...