Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateurs. A university journalism student could tell you, more or less, what went on at U.N., but what it means is another matter entirely. That is why we have assigned Robert Elson, chief of TIME'S Washington bureau, to cover these important opening sessions. Elson, who was a fledgling reporter at the old League of Nations in Geneva in 1928, has been the cornerstone of our U.N. coverage from the beginning...
...Coast bureau head, Sidney James. Later, when U.N. reassembled in London for its first formative meeting, our continuity of coverage was upheld by John Osborne, new London bureau head, who, as Foreign News and International editor, had handled the San Francisco copy of Elson, Ways...
...nation that is not yet wholly modern. In Shanghai, they staged a spectacular two-day strike against exorbitant rentals charged by the ricksha owners. The metropolis of 3,000,000 hiked to shop and office, jammed itself inhumanely in over-jammed trolleys. The municipal government's social affairs bureau mediated a truce while coolies and hong owners negotiated to fix standard rates...
Directed by Edward J. LeCam, high ranking students of the Law School are once again operating the Legal Aid Bureau, lapsed since 1942, to handle divorce, landlord, and tenant cases that would not ordinarily involve a retainer or fee for an attorney...
...bureau accepted eight cases on its first day of consultation last week, three more than the pre-war daily average. In operation for 27 years before the war, it offers legal advice to residents of greater Boston who cannot afford to consult a lawyer...