Word: bureau
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...knowledge of White House operations, also has experience in world economics. In 1918 he was economic expert for the U.S. Food Administration; he held the same post the following year with the U.S. War Industries Board. Since 1933, when he went into the Roosevelt administration as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he has been busy as a New Deal figure-man and statistical expert...
...well-founded theory that people are most interested in people and places they know, the West Virginia Network tried an experiment in "country journalism." Last week the Washington news bureau of the network* celebrated its first birthday, and could congratulate itself on proving that its kind of radio coverage had paid...
Hesser will be replaced temporarily by Lieutenant Commander B. H. Bieri, SC, USN, who was formerly Assistant to the Officer in Charge of Personnel of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in the Navy Department...
...naval chaplains have long complained that their chief, Captain Robert D. Workman, did not have sufficient prestige. His rank was below that of the Army Chief of Chaplains, Major General William R. Arnold, and his office was just an appendage of the Naval Bureau of Personnel. Last week, after a unanimous Senate vote, Chaplain Workman could not only sport the stripes of a rear admiral, but looked forward to coming home from a 25,000-mile Pacific tour to a brand-new office of the Chief of Naval Chaplains...
...prove its respectability, True Confessions has just spent $50,000. It was a year's job. During the first five months, interviewers rang doorbells all over Dayton, Ohio (picked by the Census Bureau as a typical wartime U.S. city) and badgered Confessions' readers into answering 600 questions. It took seven more months to find out what the answers meant. Last week the results were in: since most Confessions' readers are between 20 and 34 years old, they are obviously neither frustrated old maids nor sex-stirred bobby-soxers; 72% are married; they pay more rent...