Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complex are the Budget's figures that President Hoover prepared for his own use a simplified compilation, grouping expenditures under functional heads, rather than by departments and bureaus. This "personal budget," as the President called it, showed how each dollar of Government money will be divided...
...mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff bills...
...electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought" in the suggestion that utility propaganda bureaus be discontinued, added, however, that it was vitally important that the "youth of the land" should be allowed to "drink from the running stream of current facts [concerning power and public utilities] rather than from the stagnant pool of wornout ideas, pools poisoned ... by the sophistries of discredited theorists...
Many colleges are injuring their press relations with the public by attempting to suppress unfavorable news stories, said Mr. R. W. Madry, director of the News Bureau of the University of North Carolina, in an address before the Association of College News Bureaus, at Vanderbilt University...
...very pessimistic information about the Reich was vouchsafed by an expert known to have the ear and confidence of U. S. President Herbert Hoover. Indeed this expert, Dr. Julius Klein, was responsible for building up under Secretary of Commerce Hoover one of the most favorably-known trade in formation bureaus possessed by any state. He has just returned from a series of conferences with U. S. commercial attaches in Europe. President Hoover welcomed him home by promoting him from Director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce. When studiously self-effacing Dr. Klein slipped...