Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago had rented a canoe, paddled up the Potomac and cut his own throat with a kitchen knife. For another thing, the FBI document stated that he had gotten the Bulgarian's address from Mrs. Emilie Condon, wife of Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the federal Bureau of Standards...
...quarrel over the basement washing machine. The only professional actor in the shifting cast is the judge. None of the others even try to memorize lines. Instead, they are rehearsed over & over in incidents gathered from court stenographers, judges, police reporters, detectives and the files of the Better Business Bureau. Lord encourages them to act out the basic drama in their own words...
...Little Rock, the Arkansas Vital Statistics Bureau was asked to file a birth certificate which listed the mother's occupation as "cotton and children," the father's occupation as "jest settin...
Harvard men are not replacing themselves. (This from the Population Reference Bureau of Washington, D. C.) Barring late entries, when the Class of 1924 returns to Cambridge next week it will be forced to report that it has been able to produce only 1.74 children...
Said the News: "There are 16 detectives accepting graft in the Miami police department. This is one-quarter of the entire detective bureau . . ." The News did not name the 16, but it did not leave much room for doubt either: "Five of the graft-takers are in District Two. There are six [detectives] in this district...