Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minimum of advisers: Speechwriter Elliott Bell, one-time New York Timesman; Secretary Paul Lockwood, an associate from his D.A. days; Press Secretary Jim Hagerty. Tall, lean Hamilton Gaddis, patronage dispenser of the Dewey Albany administration, preceded the train as advance agent. Behind the lines, a mammoth research bureau, occupying the top floor of Albany's De Witt Clinton Hotel, steadily went on digging up facts & figures...
...correspondent exerting the greatest influence on Washington: dignified, omniscient Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times's Washington bureau (51 votes). Second: Drew Pearson...
Copy from Admiral Nimitz' press conference at Pearl Harbor clacked monotonously on one of the Associated Press's San Francisco teletypes. Suddenly a side item from Pearl Harbor set another teletype going. Bureau Manager Harold Turnblad whistled in surprise as he read: "Powerful Allied naval forces have attacked a portion of the Japanese fleet lying at anchor near the entrance to Fusan Harbor on the southeast coast of Korea . . . 26 of approximately 80 ships . . . were set afire . . . more than 70 Japanese vessels, including warships and transports, were . . . sunk...
Edward McGoldrick, 39, is head of a special New York City bureau to assist the city's estimated 12,000 drunks. New York is the first big U.S. city to do more for alcoholics than throw them in jail...
Eleanor Roosevelt got a bigger hand for a neat brushing-off of portly, potent Edward A. O'Neal, hard-lobbying president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. In the course of a debate about teacher unionization, Mrs. Roosevelt asserted that, in rural communities, a teacher with an idea always risked the danger of attack by "someone from Mr. O'Neal's organization [here she lowered her voice to a pompous politico gruffiness] saying that it is a very dangerous doctrine!" It brought down the house...