Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they bother all overseas transmission. Once, inadvertently, they helped us. The head of one of our overseas bureaus had sent in the qualifications of a correspondent he wanted to hire. He asked for an immediate reply. Our answer was negative, but by the time the wires were unspotted our bureau head had hired the man. He turned out to be a very good correspondent...
...good bureaucrat needs to be happy is a bureau-any bureau. Not understanding this universal law of nature, Moscow s Komsomolskaya Pravda waxed wroth last week at a bureaucrat named Bylinkin who could just as well have worked in Omsk, Tomsk or Washington...
...York Times, among others, had hired the monsignor as Vatican legman. He turned in such a sloppy, inaccurate report of an important Papal speech that the Times's Rome bureau chief Milton Bracket had to repudiate the story next day. Eventually Bracker fired him, as did almost every U.S. news service. Pucci had handed the A.P. and other agencies a story that the then Msgr. Francis Spellman was planning a trip to the Middle East to review the troops; it turned out that he had read "Middle West" in a French newspaper and got the story wrong...
...green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
TRANSLATING LOCAL RISES TO THE NATIONAL SCENE, the Department of Labor's Bureau of Statistics has figured that prices of 28 basic commodities have ascended by 33 per cent since V-J Day, of which rise 23 per cent has occurred since the beginning of this month...