Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prodded by Virginia's Byrd, ordered the Budget Bureau to prove (or disprove) President Roosevelt's claim in his 1940-41 budget message that $700,000,000 can be recovered this year from such spend-lend agencies...
...lectures have come in rare feasts, instead of steady diets, making it physically impossible for the Harvard Man to satisfy his appetite for them all. University Hall has made a half-hearted effort to ease the difficulty: in a circular letter it invited campus groups to notify the Information Bureau of prospective meetings. That the response was not exactly hearty was demonstrated last night...
Located in the bowels of University Hall, the Information Bureau performs myriad functions, and does not seem the best clearing-house possible. More logical is the Student Council Office in P.B.H., where a file of meetings, sponsors, buildings, dates, and estimated attendances would be kept. For the immediate present, the Information Bureau should be better patronized by student organizations anxious to escape conflicts; in the long run, the Student Council can do the job more capably. Extra-curriculars need wiser rationing, lest they be poured down the drain...
...piquant is the tile of the P. B. H. Conference on a Government Career. But there will be nothing intangible about the round table discussion, as Administration leaders take time out to explain their problems. Nor will the effort vanish with winter's last nasty days; already a permanent bureau of information on the possibilities of a Capitol Hill career is promised...
...Manhattan; Book Editor Alexander Kendrick, Philadelphia Inquirer; Ralph J. Werner, assistant financial editor, Milwaukee Journal; Editorial Writer Charles F. Edmundson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Harry M. Davis, New York Times feature writer; Reporters Nathan G. Caldwell (Nashville Tennesseean), John H. Crider (New York Times Washington bureau), Boyd T. Simmons (Detroit News), William J. Miller (Cleveland Press...