Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration levelled a double-barrelled blast at the Placement Bureau problem yesterday with the announcement that a committee of alumni is investigating all aspects of the question and that in the mean while Phillips Brooks House will be allowed to fill the gap with a temporary placement office headed by John L. Steele...
Soon after the announcement of a drastic revision in the budget last spring, the Placement Bureau was eliminated entirely, with the provision that the employment problem would be investigated in the hopes of a better solution. Since then a Student Council Committee headed by James E. Meredith '42, and Phillips Brooks House have been active in encouraging steps toward another agency, if only a temporary...
...Weather Bureau...
...Catholic press is the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service, founded (1920) and controlled by the Archbishops and Bishops of the U.S. Headed since 1924 by shrewd Editor Frank A. Hall, ex-city editor of the Washington Post, it is the world's biggest Catholic news bureau, has its own network of foreign correspondents, turns out an average 50,000 words a week. It furnishes the bulk of national and international news, features, pictures in the Catholic press; even sends out prefabricated editorials. Typical of N.C.W.C. News Service is its handling of the President's hopeful statement made...
...When the family larder is down to non-subsistive proportions, he writes a sermon on the five loaves and two fishes, in the desperate hope that someone in the congregation will be bright enough to take the hint and invite the family to dinner. He visits the marriage-license bureau, hoping to turn an honest wedding fee (generally...