Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.L.G.W.U. When the editors decided last month to round out this chronicle by means of a cover story, TIME correspondents in ten cities in the U.S. and Canada went to work digging into I.L.G.W.U.'s far-flung activities. Correspondent Windsor Booth, labor reporter from our Washington bureau, and Researcher Anne Lopatin, who spent days talking to garment workers, concentrated on the union's headquarters in New York. National Affairs' A. T. Baker gathered his own first-hand impressions of the garment section and Dubinsky before he sat down to write the story. On the night that...
With Lausche out, the field was open but the crop was poor. The C.I.O. wanted Murray Danforth Lincoln, a lanky, transplanted Yankee, executive secretary of Ohio's Farm Bureau Federation. The trouble with Lincoln, who had voted from the beginning for Franklin Roosevelt, was that he was a registered Republican...
...People's Government for the Northeast" (i.e., Manchuria), proclaimed by a "People's Congress" in Mukden. Its chairman is one Kao Kang, 47, who is also secretary of the Communist Northeast Bureau...
...tempest, a spent and blowsy drunkard, reeled northward into Georgia and north along the eastern seaboard. Bessie, one of Florida's most ferocious hurricanes, at week's end had been demoted to a "disturbance" on Weather Bureau charts...
...Years of hurricane experience had taught the U.S. how to protect itself. The U.S. Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Service uses networks of sensitive seismographs and patrols of hurricane-hunting planes. Strict city building codes and the American Red Cross "hurricane shelter" program have also reduced the toll. Twenty years ago, U.S. hurricanes cost an average of 161 lives for every $10 million property damage...