Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the case seemed routine to detectives from the West 100th Street station. They got her description for the routine form which the police call "DD-13." For the Missing Persons Bureau, which seeks 9,000 people a year, turns up 8,900 of them, alive or dead, before twelve months are out; and 80% come back by themselves, 50% within 48 hours...
...week's end Captain John J. Cronin, the deceptively delicate-looking commanding officer of the Bureau, was directing a meticulous search which had spread across the whole...
...China's frail and handsome Minister of Education, won a great victory last October. He succeeded in extending his dictatorship over China's thinkers as far as the U.S. In a new set of rules his Ministry declared that a bureau to "guide and control thought and conduct" of private Chinese students studying abroad would be set up in each foreign country. To these thought controllers the students would have to give unconditional obedience and "the moment facts are substantiated and reported to the Ministry that their speech or writing is contrary to the teachings of the Three...
...Hoodlum Saint (M.G.M.) will be based on the life of the late Dempster MacMurphy who, feeling that Repentant Thief St. Dismas never got full credit for his virtue (despite Christ's explicit "Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise"). acted as a one-man press bureau for the Saint. Father Edward Dowling, close friend of MacMurphy and editor of Queen's Work, is collaborating on the script with Writer Casey Robinson...
...seem to Mr. Plumley to be essential to the war. Ernie King's deputy, Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home (not the least of whose qualifications is his ability to get along with Congress) quickly admitted that the item should not have been put in the bill. "The bureau chiefs are here, and I think you are going to give them a bad quarter of an hour," said wry Admiral Home...