Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, at this time of year, our correspondents overseas have been exchanging the season's greetings with us here at home and relating their plans for celebrating Christmas. From his post in poverty-stricken, overcrowded Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray cabled...
...weather." He figured on eating the turkey cold and taking a swim after dinner. For the traditional Christmas eggnog, the William Whites, in Rio de Janeiro, are substituting mint juleps. Our Bogotá correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, says he is going to spend the day alligator hunting. In Mexico City, Bureau Chief John Stanton had no worries beyond a slight apprehension over the fate of his children's toys (their Mexican playmates won't get theirs until Jan. 6, the Day of the Three Kings...
Austerity was the keynote of the London office's Christmas, and most members planned to spend it quietly. Because of the shortage of foreign exchange mistletoe, usually imported from France, was virtually nonexistent, and commodities, from potatoes to caviar, were also in short supply. Although Bureau Chief John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers...
...divided and warring India our New Delhi bureau was having "no (repeat no) Christmas celebration." In Tokyo, TIME Inc.'s staff was forbidden by occupation directives to share food or give American gifts to Japanese. In Moscow, where rationing had ended, John Walker had assembled a Ukrainian doll for his infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas...
...Neal, tough and profane as well as courtly, has been the most powerful spokesman U.S. farmers have ever had. All during the Roosevelt years, he-more than any other man-shaped U.S. farm policy. In his heyday as president of the rich American Farm Bureau Federation (membership: 1,275,000), he had no peer as a Washington lobbyist. He knew when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry...