Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again the educational underworld of Harvard Square has had a run-in with the law. Accused by the Macmillan Company of violating a court injunction against plagiarized tutoring notes, the College Tutoring Bureau now faces repetition of its 1933 debacle, when federal marshals raided its "classroom" and carried away two taxi-loads of notes to be burned at the Federal Building. In fact this week has seen a widening as well as a strengthening of the anti-cram-school front, for Princeton has just inaugurated a vigorous campaign to wipe out the racket...
...court decision finds the College Tutoring Bureau again guilty of unethical practices, it will be a major tragedy for Messrs. Hurvitz and Segel, whose University Tutoring School has already been forced out of business. It will also remove from the market some of the worst printed notes ever foisted upon undergraduates--notes so bad that the students themselves perhaps have grounds for suit...
Acting to reinforce an injunction obtained in 1933 against the College Tutoring Bureau for copyright violations, attorneys for the MacMillan Company, publishers, in a motion filed yesterday asked the U. S. District Court of Massachusetts to hold the Bureau's proprietors, Joseph H. Hurvitz and Abraham Segel, in contempt of Court...
Largest of the Harvard Square dealers in tutoring notes, the College Tutoring Bureau with its now defunct affiliate, University Tutors, supplied 38 percent of all notes sold last year...
...Received and balked at the President's fourth (and last) proposal to reorganize and consolidate Federal bureaus. Major shifts: Weather Bureau from Agriculture Department to Commerce Department; Food & Drug Administration from Agriculture to Paul McNutt's Federal Security Agency; the hitherto independent Civil Aeronautics Authority to the Commerce Department. Major balk: against hobbling CAA and abolishing its Air Safety Board...