Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revealing peek at the whirring gears of the bureaucratic mind, the Information Bulletin of the U.S. Military Government in Germany (OMGUS) solemnly totted up the abbreviations in common usage among occupation forces in Germany. From AACS (Airways and Air Communication Service) to ZVL (German central movements directorate), the compendium plodded through 581 separate items. Samples: BE (British Element), CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects), GMZFO (Military Government of the French Zone of Occupation), PUP (Public Utilities Panel), WAGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts...
...list was only an abridgment of the OMGUS lexicon. Most technical symbols for intra-office usage, explained the bulletin apologetically, had been omitted...
Whether anything has occurred to change the minds of the Committee members since the fall meeting cannot be known, but the issue of what the memorial should be has generated considerable interest among alumni everywhere--interest reflected in letters to the Alumni Bulletin, to the individual members of the Saltonstall Committee, and to Henry C. Clark '11, secretary of the group...
...morning last week, balding, bespectacled Bryant Bowden, editor of the weekly Okeechobee (Fla.) News, sauntered into the Okeechobee courthouse and stopped to eye the bulletin board in the main hall. Among the marriage-license applications, which, by Florida law, must be publicly posted for three days before a ceremony, he saw something which made him goggle. Winthrop Rockefeller, 35, of New York-the fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons and one of the most eligible bachelors in the world-had stated his intention of marrying one Eva Sears, 31, also of New York...
Almost immediately after the release of a circular letter announcing Sunday's meeting, Major General William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan endorsed UMT in a lengthy article published in Wednesday's issue of "Shannonigans," official bulletin of the University ROTC unit...