Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain, boss of Task Force 38, fought his valedictory last week somewhere off the coast of Japan. For cocky, 60-year-old "Jock" McCain a quieter job was waiting in Washington: helping General Omar Bradley run the Veterans Bureau...
...Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 54, who will be taken from command of a battleship division and given an unannounced post ashore-probably Chief of the Bureau of Personnel, one of the most worrisome posts in Washington...
...moon-faced Stephen Jerome Hannagan made his start by shouting the praises of Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming auto racers. His big chance came, 20 years ago, when Promoter Carl Graham Fisher put him in charge of Miami Beach's publicity. Hannagan set up a news bureau, sent northward a steady flow of good copy - about 25% society notes on what the home folks were doing down South, the other 75% pictures of pretty girls in bathing suits. Miami Beach prospered, and Steve Hannagan got a lot of the credit...
...Into the equally important post of London bureau chief moved deadly serious Herbert L. Matthews, who had made his mark in Ethiopia, Spain, India and Italy...
...sullen summer heat, strikes smouldered into flame like scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...