Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony by the victim's family recounted that he had departed from the Gardiner Boston home at 184 Beacon Street at 10 o'clock on the evening of January 23. Since that time while Maine and New Hampshire State Police and detectives from the New York City missing persons bureau carried on the search, the family's greatest fear was that he had attempted to return to his Eliot House room...
...crisis. (One of his and Osborne's first firm predictions was that the Labor Government would not form a coalition with the Conservatives.) Cynthia Ledsham went to Coventry to record the crisis' effect on a single industrial community. Constance Lailey, who had wired queries to the bureau's stringers in the blacked-out cities throughout Britain, requeried the main ones by telephone. June Rose took a deep breath and vanished into the cold of London's East End to see what the crisis meant to the people living there...
...Germany going Nazi once more? Sensational news stories have implied it. On the eve of the Moscow conference to consider a German peace, John Scott, TIME'S Berlin bureau chief, cabled this report...
...intelligence from Cuba stung one U.S. agency into prompt action. The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics notified the Cuban Government that while Luciano was on the loose no more narcotics for medical use would be sent to Cuba; Lucky might get them and peddle them. Cuba's new Interior Minister Alfredo Pequeno got the point. He called in burly Benito Herrera, chief of the secret police, and told him to go get Lucky. At week's end Lucky Luciano, no war hero at all, was locked up and had an ultimatum: go back to Italy...
...choice of activities for which leaders are continually requested is wide indeed. Unlike some extracurricular enterprises, this one is not a tenacious time-consumer. Moreover, in order to utilize the services of those unable to assume responsibility on a scheduled basis, the Social Service Committee plans an optional "call bureau" which will channel escorts to contingents of small fry eager for rodeos, circuses, and other special events. Two hundred men offered their assistance regularly in pre-war year-when the College student body totalled only 3500. Three hundred should be a moderately proportional figure...