Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the news that the Marines had landed and were about to start east came in to TIME'S News Bureau, we telegraphed our correspondents in the west and south and middle west-tipped them off to be on the lookout for the "Home Again Special"-asked for full details on the homecoming of any Marines who turned up in their territory...
...good war news last week insinuated its way even into the drab and cautious mathematics of the Bureau of the Budget. Emerging from his annual midsummer inventory, stocky, able Budget Director Harold Smith announced that at least $3 billion can now be shaved off U.S. war expenditures by the end of the fiscal year, June...
Just under 33,000 claims, totaling about $3 billion, have been filed with the Bureau so far. Under the vague phraseology in the law, almost every corporation which can collar an unemployed lawyer can gamble a few thousand dollars with a chance of winning a rebate many times as big. But by the same token the money spent to prepare a claim is likely to be a bet on the whim of a tax official. The lawyers know this, and thus are engaging in an unprecedented amount of paper work. One big company submitted a 900-page rebate claim. Another...
...same time, control of Stars & Stripes was shifted from the Army Service Forces to the politically wary Bureau of Public Relations. G.I. staffmen, already alarmed by the ouster of Colonel White for attempting to bring his G.I. readers a full budget of home-front news (TIME, July 17). wondered if the brass hats were taking over in force. But they could be sure of one thing: Captain Neville would fight his hardest to keep the Army paper free of brass-hat caution, full of G.I. flavor...
Died. Marguerite Alice ("Missy") LeHand. 47, superconfidential secretary of President Roosevelt until her retirement in 1942; of cerebral hemorrhage; during a vacation in Chelsea, Mass. Born in Potsdam, N.Y., daughter of a real-estate man, she went to Washington as a Bureau of Ordnance stenographer, first worked for Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for Vice President in 1920. Gracious, efficient "Missy" stayed on, checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down...