Attorney Generals Daughter Applies for 80 Dollar Job
Washington news reports Miss Jane Gregory, daughter of the attorney general, sought an $80 month post with the Food Administration. She listed Colonel E. M. House and the attorney general as references, claiming three dependents in need of support. She secured the position, prompting later quips about grandmothers, fans, and a lack of a food inspection bureau.
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Miss Gregory
Hold Doctors in Crusade on Narcotics
New York reporters say nine druggists and doctors were held in the Tombs on Harrison Drug law violations. Named are Dr A A Robert Bankowsky and others at West 82d, West 125th, First, and Madison avenues. Detectives Graham, Sands, and Murray led arrests amid Federal Grand Jury indictments. Evidence collected by U S Marshals. Patients paid various prices for morphine, heroin, and cocaine prescriptions.
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Michael de Prita
East 118Th Street
Frank Everett de Mar
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West 151St Street
Louis Dwork
Madison Avenue
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Federal Grand Jury
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Kirschstein
Ben A. Matthews
Quartermaster Corps Reorganized Under Goethals
The Quartermaster Corps is reorganized to secure army food and clothing for overseas forces. New embarkation storehouses at departure ports stock vast amounts of food. A fuel and forage division led by Daniel B. Wentz coordinates fuel for contractors. Camp Merritt, Camp Stuart, Camp Dix, and others will outfit troops bound overseas. A planning staff including Dr. Cleveland, Dr. Hopkins, and Dr. Mannerschlig shapes the plan with broad director powers. Robert J. Thorme becomes general merchandising manager to decide purchases and distribution.
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Goethals
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Camp Dix
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Meade
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Efficiency Commission
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Dartmouth College
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Carnegie Institute
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G. E. Willett
General Goethals
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Clark Bell of New York Bar Dies at Age 70
New York July 22 John Beth, among the oldest members of the New York bar, died from heart disease during a hot spell. Born in Whitesville, N.Y. in 1884, he led the Medico-Legal Society for twenty years, helped found the American Congress on Tuberculous, and authored several works on legal medical questions.
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Amacin Congress
Deny Bunker Licenses If Ships Do Not Fly U S Flag
Washington February 2 Bunker licenses will be denied to vessels built in the United States and completed after February 1 unless they sail under the American flag or the shipping board authorizes a different flag. The ruling, made by the war trade board in cooperation with the shipping board, aims to ensure ships produced under the program are registered as American vessels and remain under government control.
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Washington
United States
Shipping Board
New England
Lowell
Frbei
New York Reads Food Supply To The Crumb
New York will have weekly counts of food on hand as federal food administrator Arthur Williams announces. A special division of the food board will carry out the plan suggested by Herbert C. Hoover to monitor supplies in stores warehouses and in transit to meet city needs.
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New York
New York City
Arthur Williams
Food Board
Iferbert C. Eroover
Food Administration
Recruiting Offices Closed On Holiday In Washington Birthday
The army recruiting station on Wairfield Avenue and the navy recruiting station on Cannon Street were closed all day yesterday for Washington's Birthday. Both offices will reopen for business today.
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Wairfield Avenue
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Cannon Street
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