Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibilities of a worldwide educational organization were last week absorbing the London meeting of the United Nations education committee (TIME, Oct. 11). A bureau was proposed in which Great Britain, Russia and the U.S. would have one representative each, while large regions such as eastern Europe would have group representatives. Even before peace came, this body would begin such jobs as supplying liberated lands with educational books, laboratory equipment and films. And it would work constantly toward postwar intellectual cooperation...
Into the Manhattan headquarters of the Associated Press one evening last week came a flash from Bureau Chief Edward Kennedy at Algiers that made A.P. eyes pop: "DE LUCE MADE TRIP INTO BAL KANS WHICH ARRANGED ITALY. WILL WRITE SERIES STORIES. DE LUCE DESERVES HIGHEST CREDIT." Then came the first De Luce dispatch. The astonishing dateline: "A Partisan Brigade Headquarters, in Yugoslavia...
When buttermakers in the Iowa Farm Bureau bellowed that such a disinterested oleopus as Brownlee's might befit scholarly Harvard but was disloyal in a cow college, Iowa State President Charles Edwin Friley junked the Brownlee pamphlet. When he spoke of drafting a revised text, the packer-minded Chicago Journal of Commerce said he was trying to "bamboozle" the public...
Concluding that the college's scholarly reputation was jeopardized, Brownlee's department chairman, Theodore William Schultz, resigned and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Numerous episodes, said he, proved undue Farm Bureau influence over the College...
First he read a clipping from Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...