Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April, the third son, John, returned from the Army. The settled hopelessness in his home started him on a new hunt through the hospitals, morgues, missions, flop houses and police stations. He found no trace until he tried the Missing Persons Bureau. A blurred photograph bore his father's name, but no address. A file card said that Joseph Rogon had died of bronchial pneumonia in Chicago's dreary, red-brick Bridewell Prison Hospital...
...bought & sold on the black market. Through a series of "black" transactions, a man with flexible scruples can pile up a handsome profit. Required for the trick are 1) the false bottoms of inflation and 2) a well-organized international set of stooges. Last week, TIME's London bureau found a traveler who had just returned from a cheap weekend tour of the continent...
...carried by 14,705-to-6,783. The majority was 2,000 less than Thorez had hoped for. He turned to the three others-Jacques Duclos, André Marty, Léon Mauvais-and said: "We are beaten. In one hour there will be a meeting of the Political Bureau...
Besides being a housemaster, Dr. Perkins has been head of the War Service Bureau since 1943, an essential industry for those Harvard men with invitations from their draft boards. As a lecturer in English history, he is well known to those who have taken History 42a. Dr. Perkins spent a number of years in England and did research there from 1931 to 1934. He received his doctor's degree at Harvard...
...coverage of Dunkirk and Dieppe was so good that Raymond Daniell, chief of the Times's London Bureau, hired him away. Daniell sent him to North Africa, where Middleton's analysis of the tangled Darlan-Giraud crisis was from the first surprisingly mature and shrewd. His up-front combat stories showed a reportorial eye, a literary...