Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radiomen also needed reassurance. Viewing the formidable staff of scholars, geographers and analysts swiftly collected by the Colonel, they gathered that a propaganda bureau was being prepared, and that short-wave broadcasters would be required to take dictation, or else. Enough young men around Washington talked like fools to give point to this suspicion. Already stirred up (for other reasons) against FCC, the industry felt that any plan to flim-flam its short-wave audience -built up by years of honest news reporting-should be fought at a hat's drop...
...looks like a Harvard man, chances are a hundred to one that he's the mysterious prankster "Jeeves" hired by your hostess to amaze and dismay the guests. Jeeves has been an institution in the Harvard Employment bureau as long as people remember. Sometimes, on busy weekends, there are even two or three such cavorting "servants" raising havoc at affairs ranging from quiet little home dinners to giant hotel men's dinners...
Pearce took up clowning at Harvard only after a suggestion from the employment bureau. In his performances up here, he once used a little pig which he had trained to climb a ladder, as a prop...
...Professor James A. Casner's defense advisory office, which assists draftees, volunteers, and students who want information on opportunities in the defense industries, will not be affected by any developments in the placement bureau problem, since Professor Casner supplies only information and advice, not jobs...
...committee of alumni investigating the problems of a placement bureau will make an exhaustive study covering the employment agencies in the graduate schools, the difficulties of establishing business contacts, and the relation between undergraduate courses and employment...