Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that no hospital had a record of Dr. Hauptmann, that his last salary check was still in his bank, that his wife and two daughters had disappeared also. Last week the college made a public announcement of the professor's disappearance and it became known that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating. Rumors flew. The Newark News printed a report that the professor was in Germany. The college hardly knew what to think...
...work quietly. He merely said there was evidence that many a U. S. company, often unknowingly, had an "anti-American" (i.e., Nazi) for agent below the Rio Grande, suggested replacement by men friendly to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 20). But last week to TIME'S Texas Bureau Chief Holland McCombs came reports from Mexico which gave Mr. Rockefeller convincing support. The report named names, proved beyond question that Nazis are taking a cut of many a U. S. dollar...
Over 40 members of the University are listed in the entertainment bureau's catalogue, which does not include a number of available lectures. "Jeeves," who is a member of the Law School, can be hired for the evening as a butler. For a while he acts in the approved manner, but soon he starts putting his fingers in the soup, washing his hands in the drinking water, and generally upsets the party...
Opening an office on Washington's busy Wisconsin Avenue, curly-headed Jane Acheson, daughter of New Dealing Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and two other resourceful careerists announced a new super-personal service bureau (called "As You Like It") which would entertain dull guests, mind babies, and put out the cat as ably as it carried clogs to the cobbler...
...explain to its agents what the complicated Revenue Act of 1940 was all about, the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue bought from publishers Simon & Schuster 300 copies of J. K. Lasser's book: Your Income Tax - How to Keep It Down...