Word: bureau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the guidance of Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant dean of the College and Graduate Secretary of PBH, new committees, such as the Harvard Ticket Agency and Information Bureau, came into full swing, while old ones, such as the Social Service Committee, hit their stride once more...
...Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. But when the official party arrived, the crowd's eyes turned from Lenin's benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped stage, Georgi Fiodorovich Alexandrov, chief of the Party Central Committee's Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, delivered the memorial address...
...South, was enjoying a crashing success in Denver with his 14-year-old God's Little Acre. The pocket edition (25?) was fetching $5 on the black market, and bookstores were sold out of the regular edition. Responsible for the boom: the head of the police Morals Bureau, who suppressed the 25? Acre because "it was too easy for kids to get it." Did he find the book obscene? "No comment," said...
...small pockets" of gas that Federal Mine Bureau inspectors had found in the cavernous Nottingham colliery were only minor enemies to Danny Lewis and the 15,500 mine people of Plymouth, Pa. There were gas pockets in almost every anthracite mine in Pennsylvania. Besides, Danny had known greater enemies. Last September, when his confectionery business waned, he had closed out and begun digging coal to support his wife and two children...
...Senate Commerce Committee, CAB Chairman James M. Landis had a ready answer-lack of money. He could point out that CAA's request last year for $90,000,000 to improve air safety had been cut by the Budget Bureau to $68,000,000, by Congress to $64,000,000. This year's request had already been pared by the President's budgeteers from $113,980,000 to $92,271,000. Recently CAA had to close down 55 air communications stations and three airport control towers for lack of funds. "For the past seven years," said...