Word: bureau
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...crocodile pits and away from bears' paws, found that he had to go back the next day to see for himself what the zoo was really like. The pair who bore the brunt of the cover story were James Bell and Serrell Hillman, of our Chicago bureau-home of the cover subject, Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln Park...
According to their bureau chief, they began their assignment with "all the enthusiasm of schoolboys excused from classes for a week." Hillman, a citified reporter who could hardly be expected to tell the difference between a chicken hawk and a humming bird, spent one afternoon "birding" with the Perkinses in Lincoln Park's vast private sanctuary. Says he: "For the first half hour we saw nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs...
When the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill reached his desk, he angrily pounced on a slash of $20 million for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which would cut deeply into the staff of enforcement officers. The "fallacy" of such shortsighted penny-pinching and the "gross inadequacy" of the bill, said the President, would be painfully evident in the annual loss of $400 million in unpaid taxes. He thought the "vast majority" of U.S. taxpayers were honest, but he also implied that a chiseling minority could now succeed in evading the law. But, like the rent bill, he indicated...
Meanwhile the Labor Department prepared for mutilation. With the loss of its Conciliation Service, the Department was left with the Women's Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Wage and Hour Division, and a couple of minor sections. The crack-of-the-week in Washington was that Secretary Lew Schwellenbach is the only bureau chief in the capital who has cabinet status...
During the early years of the war, Rutstein was national director of the gas protection section of the Office of Civilian Defense. Later he became acting director of the New York Bureau of Laboratories...