Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many newsmen agree with him. "For the moment," said one bureau chief last week, 'Tearson is the one investigatory journalist in Washington, and we could use more like him. The rest are all pundits and deadpan reporters. If he laid off those predictions, he'd be a better journalist-and, I suppose, a poorer-paid one." There is no doubt that Pearson has had a healthy effect on Washington. When George C. Marshall was chief of staff, a general, worried over Army leaks to Pearson, went to the chief and urged that Pearson be bottled up by strict...
...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau announced yesterday a new set of officers headed by Donald C. Lubick 3L as president. The Bureau furnishes legal assistance to residents of Cambridge and Greater Boston who cannot afford to retain an attorney...
...enrolled in a daily reading course given by William G. Perry, Jr., director of the Bureau of Study Counsel. Perry teaches them to get ideas out of books faster, especially in the social studies area. Most students enter the course, with a reading speed of 220 wards a minute and leave it with a rate of about 420 words per minute...
...class is given every term for half a semester. Students may enroll with the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...member of the Porcellian Club, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Dechert Price, Smith & Clark, and joined the Navy in World War II, where he rose to captain and procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation for the Legion of Merit says that he saved the Government "billions." Says Smith: "I honestly think it's a misprint." He now commutes to Philadelphia from his 60-acre farm, likes to ride horseback and sail his 45-ft. yawl Cherry Blossom...