Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administered the fact-finding agencies of her department, the children's bureau, the women's bureau, with fine, earnest competence. The Department's Conciliation Service has functioned with more success than is generally credited to it. In 1940, its 110 conciliators intervened in 1,568 threatening situations, averted strikes in 95% of them. The year before, the Service was successful in 93% of its cases. But that success was due less to Ma Perkins than to such able men as Chief Conciliator John R. Steelman and, before him, to Assistant Secretary Edward F. McGrady...
After two months of confusion on the subject of Army and Navy censorship of military news, last week outlines of order emerged from chaos. Not only did the Navy reorganize its press bureau, but the Army enunciated a sensible policy on military news-a policy that stopped far short of real censorship...
...workers employed now, what would it be by late 1942, when the industry expects to have 70,000 employes? What OPM wanted to do was avert an explosion, not try to pick up the pieces afterward. Out to the West Coast went bald, spectacled Isador Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, now on leave as deputy to Sidney Hillman in defense. Last fortnight Lubin returned with a plan that pleased everybody-shipbuilders, union men, OPM, the Navy, the Maritime Commission. In the first overall, zone-wide agreement of its kind, labor gained a $1.12 wage scale (compared...
When last year's shy-but-rich Yardlings started a C.O.D. date bureau in collaboration with a similar Radcliffe organization, it was only mildly dangerous to free competition. No protesting unions sprang up on either side of Mass Avenue...
Then came the first news, only an appetizer. At the far end of the hall a New York Times office boy came to the door, handed a torn-off news-ticker scrap to a Secret Service guard. The guard delivered the scrap to Times Bureau Chief Arthur Krock. Pundit Krock glanced at it, reached the scrap up to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who adjusted his pince-nez, read that Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia signed a non-aggression pact. Impassively he handed the news to Franklin Roosevelt...