Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Squatters. On the political forces behind London's war, TIME'S London Bureau chief, John Osborne, reported...
...last January, it was a foregone conclusion that "Colonel Passy" would not last long. Communists, seeing in him a determined enemy, had attacked him ever since liberation. The Socialists had followed suit. Nor was any love lost on the "boy wonder" by the Army, whose stuffy "Deuxième Bureau" was eclipsed by Dewavrin's secret service...
Conflicting reports have Tito: 1) in Spain as a "trusted man" with the International Brigade; 2) in Vienna, Prague and Paris as a member of the Communist International's roving undercover political bureau; 3) in Vienna as a university student (Tito still speaks German with Vienna's sloppy accent); 4) in Switzerland; 5) in Moscow and Leningrad taking courses in partisan warfare at revolutionary finishing schools; 6) in Moscow, as Comintern representative of the Yugoslav Communists...
...Finance in Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). Like Bela Kun, Varga fled to Moscow when the Hungarian Soviet collapsed. Unlike Bela Kun, who was liquidated in Russia's Great Purge, he prospered and became economic adviser to the Russian Communist Party's Political Bureau. Hence his article is an important clue to what Russia's leading political theorists and practical politicians think about world affairs...
...favorite pastime for 14 years. He has lost good jobs and good sponsors by ridiculing commercials, mocking soap operas, burlesquing bigwigs and romping through childish pranks. Philadelphia's WCAU once sacked him when he listed station executives (whom he seldom met) in the missing persons' bureau broadcast. (Says Morgan, gleefully: "It was days before they discovered...