Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forces Line Up. To Washington came scores of men from the Big Four farm lobbies at the order of their leaders: Ed O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Albert Goss of the National Grange, H. E. Babcock of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Charles Holman of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation. "This is war," desperately wired Babcock to his local chapters, and he did not mean World...
...duty to Cambridge, replaces Lieutenant Commander Ernest C. Collins, who returns to duty. The new supply school chief is a product of the Navy's supply training system, having spent three years at the Business School here as well as two years at both the Army Industrial School and Bureau of Supplies and Accounting in Washington...
...week tryout, WQXR's new 9-to-9:15 evening news roundup was identified as the TIME and LIFE Worldwide News Review. The news is written by a small, special TIME Inc. staff from dispatches supplied by the 203 far-flung correspondents of the TIME Inc. News Bureau. It was the first time that a publishers' news service had provided its own regular full-length radio news program. The Worldwide News Review is not voiced by a built-up personality but simply by a spokesman-representative of the service...
When Navy's No. 1 airman, Rear Admiral John H. Towers, head of BuAer (Bureau of Aeronautics), was last week made a vice admiral it was a promotion for Admiral Towers but a demotion for the Navy's air arm. For Towers was sent out to command all Navy flyers in the Pacific and his key job in the Washington high command was given to a battleship admiral...
...University settled down to the task of training each student to bear arms when the Armistice came. By December, 1918, the SATC men were receiving their discharges, and the College shifted back to its normal tenor of life with remarkable speed. But the day of the Armistice the War Bureau of the College announced that according to latest reports 6,500 Harvard men had taken part in the war, and 226 would never return...