Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Placid and unmoved sat Chief Censor Deputy Martinaud-Deplat, even when Orator Blum boomed at him, "the personnel of the censorship bureau is discredited with the press because of their ignorance of the conditions in which the press has to work, notably the time limitations to which the press is subjected! ... As for photographs, our inferiority is even more disastrous. I have examined recent issues of an important American magazine and I have noticed many fine German pictures and only two mediocre French photographs...
Year or so ago the Internal Revenue Bureau's Alcohol Tax Unit tried to limit "rub" to its lawful use by loading it with intestinal irritants. There were no com plaints from drinkers, but doctors pro tested that the alcohol was now unfit for many external uses. Month ago the tax unit tried again. Its ruling, effective last week: from now on no one but registered pharmacists may sell...
Fifty Harvard men, Stan Brown's Crimsonians, the head of the Yardling Dating Bureau and his assistants, the Bachelors' Club, and a box of roses turned out yesterday afternoon at the South Station to greet the New Haven Express, which bore Mademoiselle Paris of the Folies Bergeres and 60 beautiful girls...
Besides ending class elections last Tuesday, the Freshman referendum also mysteriously ended Harvard's newest and shortest-lived date bureau...
...discussion with a group of friends last night, Arthur S. Harris, Jr. '43, instigator of the bureau, admitted that his sole aim in starting the idea was to use the publicity to boost himself for president of his class...