Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duhig is Charles Warner Duhig '29, acting director of student employment, and one of the top History tutors in the Bureau of Supervisors. As head of the T. S. E., administrator of the N. Y. A. funds at Harvard, and responsible for the dispensation of the 4,500 jobs that come through his office in a year, he claims he "hasn't the private life of a worm...
...goes to the blood donors, who register at the Employment Bureau then go on a list at. Massachusetts General Hospital. They move around in a sort of blood-cycle, going to the bottom each time they give blood, and moving up a name each time somebody else docs. They get $25 for each transfusion, generally losing about 500 cc at a time. "Some of the most delicate-looking boys go over to the hospital and it doesn't bother them a bit," says white-haired, little Miss Baldwin. Sometimes if a vein is a trifle stubborn the doctors have...
...other special fields handled by the office, the most fascinating to the visitor is the entertainment bureau. Any member of the College or Graduate school who thinks he is in any way talented or has something to offer to "the public" is welcome to an audition. If the authorities think he's pretty good, he's made. If not, he has to peddle his wares some place else...
...business like anything else," declares Chief Coordinator Duhig. "Only it's run for the profit of the students rather than for us, Harvard, or anybody else. We have to keep our clientele happy, though. If they're not satisfied with a magician we send them, that gives the Bureau a bad mark. So we make sure they're good. That goes for any other man we get to fill a job, too, and we rarely have any complaints...
Handouts. There is now one Government press agent for every two bona fide correspondents and they tend more & more to substitute propaganda for fresh information. Their deluge of mimeographed "handouts," according to the Bureau of the Budget, now costs the Government about $1,000,000 a year...