Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article entitled "Inquisition in Los Angeles" contains an error: that "20,000 [evacuees of Japanese ancestry] cleared by FBI now live in the Midwest and East." The error is in the statement or the implication that each individual is approved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...this one, with a drawing of Arpad watching Gabe arrange sandbags: "These are, of course, nerve-racking times. . . . Today the Weather Bureau reported: 'This afternoon slowly rising temperatures. No snow or rain. Tonight not so cold. No precipitation.' Who asked them if there would be snow or rain? Who asked about precipitation? No one. They have begun anticipating. . . . Soon they will be sending stories out saying that there will be no sun in Hoboken, or no daylight in Canarsie...
Undeceiving Census. Then (in 1937) the Soviet Government took a census. One question asked about religious faith. When the returns were in, the authorities took one look, gasped, ordered most of the census bureau liquidated as Trotskyists. The census is believed (since the figures were admitted by Godless Headman Yaroslavsky) to have shown that, after 20 years of intensive persecution of the Church, one-third of Russia's city population and two-thirds of Russia's peasants were still Christians, and would not conceal the fact from the official census takers...
There is also another reason for the falling curve on deranged bureau workers, wives driven crazy while waiting for their husbands to come home from bars, lonely Government girls and maladjusted clerks: Government and private agencies now provide opportunities for psychiatric consultation. "Of course," says Dr. Overholser. "psychiatrists can't go about asking every lonely Government girl how her complex is today." But Government employes have learned to consult psychiatrists before everything turns black. "A girl who can't find a satisfactory place to live or who can't find a date is now advised before...
...rise in juvenile delinquency since 1940, according to the U.S. Children's Bureau, has been 16%. A sardonic and searching statement on this subject was made in the current Educational Forum by Paul W. Alexander, Toledo's Juvenile Court Judge. Wrote Judge Alexander...