Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five days later the Political Bureau* of the French Communist Party refused to accept the order, but the Cabinet's two Communists held on to their jobs...
Said the Politburo's statement: "The Communist Party can in no way be associated with decisions aimed at disarming the people in the face of a Hitlerian fifth column which is left intact and powerfully armed. ... All Communists will act in the sense indicated by the Bureau, and they will do everything in their power to widen and consolidate the union of the French resistance movement...
Also moving out of University Hall are the Information and News Offices which go from the basement level to Weld's ground floor, and the Student Employment Office which is to adjoin them. As the Alumni Placement Bureau again commences to function, it will find a place in the remodeled Weld first floor, while the Committee on War Service Credit and Associate Professor Payson S. Wild's newly established Office of the Counsellor for Veterans move there as soon as possible...
Those improvised island bases, planned by burly Rear Admiral Ben Moreell and his Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, and built by Seabees, were among the wonders of the war. Never-never towns like Pago Pago were transformed. Nouméa became a little Pearl Harbor, with shipping crowding its lovely harbor, sailors over running its narrow streets, installations mushrooming on its mountains...
Officers' Mess. In Washington, the Internal Revenue Bureau ruled as legitimate business expenses, and therefore deductible on income tax returns, all "scrambled eggs" (visor scrolls), gold braid, lace, "chicken guts" (shoulder aiguillets) and chin straps...