Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsman Cowan, 34, a shy, stocky, serious Omaha World-Herald reporter-photographer who covers the police run on weekends, was sitting in Omaha's detective bureau when the accident call droned in over the radio. Racing down two flights of stairs to the pressroom, he grabbed his camera, ran for his car. Too rushed to put on his tire chains, he set off behind the police ambulance (which had chains) in a skidding, hair-raising, 75-block chase over slippery roads, through red lights, down an icy hill. At the bottom of the hill...
...physical facilities of the Law School have been largely turned over to the use of the various training schools of the armed forces. Many of the traditional features of the School, such as the Ames Competition and the student Legal Aid Bureau, have been discontinued for the duration. The return of Dean Landis, however, portends a gradual return to normal conditions, a return which will be necessarily slow because of the many problems posed by the returning servicemen...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy, and Merle Fainsed, associate professor of Government, have already addressed the newsmen in Tuesday afternoon meetings. The follows have also met in bi-weekly dinners, with Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, James Reston of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and Llewellyn B. White of the Office of War Information attending...
Last week the veil of military secrecy was lifted to reveal such a plane. Rear Admiral De Witt C. Ramsey, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, spoke in a report to Congress of "target aircraft."* The Army's great aviation testing laboratories at Wright Field confirmed his hint...
...result: to meet a deepening crisis of postwar reconversion, Washington organized the National Bureau of Youth Service. NBYS took youths out of the labor market, put them in well-subsidized schools. By 1936 NBYS was so powerful that the national administration was using it for political campaign purposes; it was an open secret that Washington censored its teaching and its texts. There were no real centers of resistance left...