Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney General Robert Jackson created a "national defense investigation unit" within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, put stern, jut-jawed Veteran Agent Hugh H. Clegg in charge. Jackson also recommended legislation to require the registration of all firearms. > The Civil Service Commission announced it would no longer certify for employment proven members of "the Communist Party, the German Bund, or any other Communist or Nazi organization...
...Editor Blair Clark (son of New Jersey's witty, arrogantly learned Federal Judge William Clark) denounced the tutoring schools as "intellectual brothels," got the Crimson to refuse their advertising (TIME, May 1, 1939). As the Crimson hammered away, the University joined in by starting a competitive, official tutoring bureau, charging relatively modest rates ($2.50 an hour top; poor students are tutored free...
Last fall, two of the crammers (the University Tutoring School and Fletcher Briggs) gave up the ghost. Early in May the College Tutoring Bureau followed suit. Still busy, however, were the two biggest tutoring schools. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done...
Here perhaps is the answer to Harvard's problem of providing prefinal reviews. In conjunction with the various department heads and the Bureau of Supervisors, University Hall might well appoint graduate students to give the Union reviews. If necessary, it might remunerate their efforts. Certainly the demand for competent course reviews is a legitimate one--and one that the University cannot afford to over-look...
Seven PK men were killed last fall in the German invasion of Poland. A few days before Nazi troops swept into Belgium and Holland, the Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, Germany's semi-official news agency, announced that 23 PK reporters had died in action during the war-presumably 16 had been killed in Norway...