Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bost, who runs the Raleigh, N.C., State capital bureau for the Greensboro (N.C.) News has witnessed dozens & dozens of executions. He has seen the souls of convicted and condemned men take flight by electrocution and in the gas chamber. The North Carolina Governor's press conference the other day strayed off to varied things and finally arrived on the subject of executions-by electrocution, gassing and hanging. (Tom has seen hangin...
Elliott Perkins '23, director of the War Service Bureau, said that he was "still puzzling about it." In the event that Congress enacts the service draft proposal into law, Perkins feels that his War Service Office may well be able to act as an advisory body in the placement of 4Fs in industry. He remarked that "no matter how hard you study, you aren't going to affect...
Lieut. Colonel Edward K. Thompson, head of our Picture Bureau before the war, holds the Legion of Merit... Writer Hugh Fosburgh (now 2nd Lieut. Fosburgh) has the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success...
...commissions). And the services seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank's senior Alaska correspondent . . . and one of our News Bureau men is gathering vital combat intelligence for the Army's G-2 Division...
...military absentees. For example, one of Annalee Jacoby's first cables from Chungking started off with a size-up of the situation at Liuchow ("Eight of our air bases are missing") by Captain Gerald McAllister of the Fourteenth Air Force - once an office boy in our Washington Bureau...