Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They gave the pictures to a public-relations officer. Major Lynn Farnol, onetime Hollywood and Broadway press agent. Major Farnol, no man to look a good story in the mouth, got the pictures released last fortnight by the War Department bureau of public relations, which knew only that "the case was closed...
...ranking officers in the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics ("Gentlemen, we have work to do"), Army, Navy and Congress leaders in Speaker Sam Rayburn's office, "a great throng . . . looking west across San Diego harbor, and out beyond Point Loma to the Pacific...
...symphony concerts and favorite radio programs"-it is a collection of shorthand notes recording the emotion that swept the U.S. in a tidal wave as the Arizona burned, the Oklahoma capsized and U.S. soldiers & sailors died in action for the first time in 23 years. The reporters: the News Bureau Staff of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE. Their assignment: the people of the U.S. Public-opinion polls could record the shift of ideas on the great issues of neutrality, of isolation, of war and peace. The task of the writers of this book was to record "what the People were seeing...
...luncheon at the Army and Navy Club, blunt Henry Kaiser outshouted Airt Chief Henry ("Hap") Arnold and tough Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the Services of Supply, when they challenged his ability to produce. He had found an unexpected ally in ubiquitous Harold Ickes, who suggested that the Bureau to Mines might help find some untapped mineral resources. Then Donald Nelson, acting tougher than Washington had ever seen him, took Kaiser's proposal to the White House, convinced Frankling Roosevelt in one session that the man who had shown shipbuilders how to build ships should be allowed...
...story was phony. It originated in Chicago and was credited to Stanley Johnston, a garrulous, black-mustachioed, Australian-born opportunist who had served in the Australian Army in World War I, knocked around Europe and the Orient for 20 years, worked for the Tribune's London bureau. He came to the U.S. after the fall of France, married a former showgirl (whom he had met in Paris), and became a U.S. citizen. Johnston had recently returned from the Pacific where he had happened to be the only correspondent on the Lexington, and was able to take pictures...