Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legal Aid Bureau, staffed by Law School honor students, helped needy residents of Greater Boston in a total of residents of Greater Boston in a total of 753 civil cases during the past year, it was reported today by Louis C. Wyman 3L, of Manchester, N. H., president...
...also established the first mothers' milk bureau in the U. S., sent a supply to the infant Dionne quintuplets. Her favorite hobby is campaigning against tobacco and alcohol...
...Oliver Gramling, 36-year-old head of the membership department, onetime reporter, city editor, bureau chief, told the story last week in a book titled AP-The Story of News.* An official history, assigned by AP, Author Gramling's volume nevertheless justified its subtitle. For the story went back to the origin of news-gathering in the U. S., told many a rousing anecdote of the press along...
...Rome bureau head, Salvatore Cortesi, as a joke gave the name of Pope Pius X to AP's treasurer as a business reference. His Holiness duly received a letter asking for information, told Cortesi he would give him a good character...
Most New York businessmen agreed the Fair was a big help. The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau figured some 4,000,000 out-of-towners came to the Fair in 1939, spent about $36 each, including $9 spent in stores. This year's visitors were fewer (3,000,000) but richer, spent about $17 each in Manhattan shops. Other statistics prove many Fairgoers made pigs of themselves. In two years they gobbled 16,222,358 hot dogs, 8,328,688 square hamburgers, washed them down with 13.767,960 cups of coffee at Childs lunch bars...