Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sundays ago Friend Walter Winchell twanged over the radio: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation G-Men swung into action at daybreak and arrested over 30 people in the Federal drive against Miami vice and white slavery. The higher-ups who will be named eventually will shock the State of Florida...
...General Jackson, had answered Senator Norris. Absolving himself from responsibility for the Detroit arrests (they had occurred during the Attorney Generalship of Frank Murphy; one of Jackson's first acts was to quash the indictments), and absolving Hoover from any misconduct, Jackson had written Senator Norris: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation will confine its activities to the investigation of violations of Federal Statutes. ... I have asked and been promised the continued and efficient service of Mr. Hoover...
...Edouard Daladier gave in to the complaints and promised: 1) to limit censorship to "military, diplomatic and national necessities"; 2) to centralize all propaganda in a responsible Ministry of Public Information. Until now press censorship has been controlled by a mere Commissariat of Information, radio censorship by its separate bureau. The jobs now have Cabinet status. Taking note of the Daladier promises, the Chamber gave the Government a 450-to-0 vote of confidence. "I trust," threatened the Premier, "that I shall not be asked in a few days to put an end to this liberty...
...this was child's play. Joanne had much bigger things in the back of her head and (partly written) in the back of her bureau drawer. For Joanne's 72-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eva Snapp, had been telling her stories of the Ohio River floods for years, and busy little Joanne had been jotting them down. Some time shortly after infancy, Joanne had decided to do a scenario based on grandma's flood experiences. Since then, it has been her life work...
...thinking about it and writing bits of it now and then as long as I can remember." She even enlisted her father and mother and the neighbors to give a hand with dialogue, touch up the grammar. "Sometimes," she says, "I'd find in the back of a bureau drawer an old piece of paper with a couple of paragraphs on it, and I'd say, 'Oh, that!' Then I'd rewrite it and try to fit it into the rest...