Word: bureau
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From Athens last week Newsman Leland Stowe (Chicago Daily News) cabled his opinion that Ralph Waldo Barnes, crack war correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, deserved a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1940. Eleven years before, when Stowe was head of the Herald Tribune's Paris bureau, he himself had won a Pulitzer Prize with the aid of young Reporter Barnes, who had managed to get a beat-the full text of the Young Plan-from a delegate to the Reparations Conference in Paris. But Stowe's suggestion was no mere logrolling...
Professors began taking pot-shots at the cram-parlors, the Administration condemned them as "parasites," and the stage was at length set for the "squeeze play," With the aid of several other publishers and evidence complied by the CRIMSON, Macmillan filed suit against the College Tutoring Bureau for violating the copyright laws...
...replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure enough, it rained, hailed and snowed.* A Providence, R. I. clerk kept count of the Old Farmer's forecast for 1900. It was 33% correct- 2% below the U. S. Weather Bureau's day-ahead record...
There was no more pretense that Japanese moves were directed at cutting the supply lines of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Foreign Office announced that it had established a South Seas Bureau "to cope with the international situation and to enable Japan's South Sea policy to be carried out fully." An oil deal which was reported last month (TIME, Oct. 28), granting Japan more than three times as much Netherlands East Indies oil as she had previously been allowed, was confirmed. The Emperor himself paused in pompous celebrations of the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire to discuss...
Last week Cornell's Big Red was still the No. 1 football team of the U. S.-according to the American Football Statistical Bureau, which is slowly gaining recognition as an appraiser of college teams. But the nation's sportswriters, polled weekly by Associated Press, rated Minnesota first...