Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general and specific coverage of the convention hall, the speeches and political jockeying on the floor, the hotel room conferences, caucuses, the squabbling and horse-trading among the voting delegations, Senior Editor Otto Fuerbringer and the entire National Affairs staff, Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley and his staff, and Chief of U.S. Correspondents David Hulburd, will be on hand. They will have all the mechanical conveniences that we can give them: a workroom in the basement of convention hall complete with teletype, television facilities,* and direct telephone communication with TIME'S New York and Washington offices, the press gallery...
Twisted Facts. It was neither true nor new, and it had already been investigated at length by Congress. Before the Tribune twisted them, the facts were these: last January Congress had approved the Smith-Mundt bill, which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
...then," he continued, "came the first hint that angry noises were being made inside the [U.S.] Immigrant Bureau, and anxious friends wrote to ask whether anything had happened during my long stay [in the U.S.] in 1939. Had the police bothered...
...Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1923 returned to Cambridge for their twenty-fifth reunions, they received a stern warning from the Population Reference Bureau that they were failing in one phase of their duty to America...
However, at least at Radcliffe, the Population Bureau reports that the situation is improving. The Radcliffe Class of 1938 has already surpassed its 1923 predecessors with a record of 1.18 children per graduate...