Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable record for putting his projects across in a big way. At 19, Silliman Evans became managing editor of a temperance sheet, later worked for fabulous Texas Publisher Amon Carter. (He was called "the alltime, all-American Diesel engine of Texas reporting.") In Washington, D.C., as Star-Telegram bureau chief, Evans played shrewd poker and shrewder politics with such admiring pals as Jack Garner, Jesse Jones, Jim Farley (who rewarded him with a Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalship for helping swing the Garner delegates to Roosevelt in the 1932 convention...
Hertz's intentions, not his background, worry the Army. Two fears: 1) that he will yank MTD away from the Army, make it an independent bureau; 2) that he will work too fast, redden the face of many a poky brass hat. As aides, Hertz will use businessmen, not Army officers...
...Government staff will go without Merle Fainsod, an assistant professor in the department, and Rupert Emerson, who was also an assistant professor. Fainsod will take charge of a governmental bureau; while Emerson, who argued with Ickes when in the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, will retire from that office for a new post...
...they sign up for Brooks House work, according to Harry Newman, Jr., President of P.B.H. Over 400 strong, they devote upwards of an hour a week doing social service work or working on the Undergraduate Faculty or Speakers Bureau...
Next in popularity is the Speakers Bureau, which provides entertainment of all kinds for settlement house, Church, or hospital groups. As might be imagined, most of the entertainment takes the form of speeches, which are on subjects ranging from current events to oriental culture. Magician shows, skits, and musical entertainments are also included in this department, however...