Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operating under the Counsellor for Veterans, Wilbur J. Bender, and the managerial direction of David D. Hathaway, the new bureau will effect a liaison between property owners and apartment seekers...
Then the sisters opened a shop, Elsie designing, Dorothy managing. Impressed again, Lord & Taylor reached out for Dorothy, put her in charge of its Comparative Shopping Bureau. She reorganized it top & bottom, got rid of the dingy "spy system," put in a Bureau of Stylists to help buyers and improve merchandising. Most of all she plugged fashion, at first that of Paris (she staged the first exhibit in America of modern French decorative art). Then she turned her attention from Paris and battled for recognition of American fashion and design...
That was just one U.S. farmer's opinion of radio. He did not represent a majority of rural listeners. But what he and other farmers had to say about radio was enough to make broadcasters uncomfortable last week. The U.S. farmer, according to a Bureau of Agricultural Economics survey, is not U.S. radio's most ecstatic friend...
...like veteran Scripps-Howardman Tom Stokes, had to win a Pulitzer Prize to get in. People like Pearson & Allen have never been admitted, nor has anyone from such left-of-center papers as the Chicago Sun and Times, the New York Post and PM. One blackball is enough. The bureau chiefs of A.P., U.P. (U.P.'s Lyle Wilson, Gridiron's outgoing president, ran the dinner), New York Times and Herald Tribune are invariably invited to join...
There were also some noteworthy poet ry roundups: John Crowe Ransom's Selected Poems; W. H. Auden's Collected Poems; David Morton's Poems 1920-1945. Bolts of Melody, though it came pretty much from the bottom of Emily Dickinson's bureau drawer, was indispensable to those interested in one of the rarest and most mysterious of the 19th Century talents...