Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott Perkins, master of Lowell House, who has taken over for Professor A James Casner as head of the War Service Information Bureau, has released the details of the Army Emergency Deferment Enlistment Plan. Under this scheme, which is only open for two weeks, any student who knows he is about to go into the Army, but has not setually received his induction papers yet, may, if approved by the Army, and reccomended by Perkins, enlist in this new plan...
Companion example of this shuttle system is Walter Graebner, who has headed the London Bureau since 1939-all through the days of Dunkirk and the dark months of the Battle of Britain...
...Stephen Laird, who wrote Foreign News in New York last year, but before that held down the volcanic job of TIME'S Berlin correspondent. Other writers home from the news fronts include Fillmore Calhoun, who was also in the London office, then headed TIME'S Rome Bureau until Il Duce kicked...
...Governor of Idaho spoke too soon. He had said that he would not let a free Japanese laborer come into the State. Last week, because coast Nisei would not come-or could not come-to Idaho, Governor Chase A. Clark and 450 Capitol and Highway Bureau employes were out in the fields themselves, thinning and weeding sugar beets, trying to save the $10,000,000 crop...
...McNutt's Manpower Administration, newcomer to the War Cabinet, is potentially the biggest bureau of all. When things get bad enough, it will in effect give every citizen a number and tell him where to work...