Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rude Pravo also deplored marriage bureaus, "used on the one hand, by doctors, directors or rich pensioners (factory owners have lost their attraction) and on the other hand by women with suitable dowries or widows with furniture." These bureaus were still legal, but, as Rude Pravo put it, "we can't correct everything at once...
...monks affected were given 15 days to make up their minds whether to 1) retire to one of three cloisters and two monasteries set aside by the government for the purpose; 2) enter homes for the aged; 3) quit clerical life altogether and register for jobs at state employment bureaus...
Peddling war plants, fishhooks, girdles and bulldozers, WAA had a peak of 58,795 workers, more than 100 offices. WAA still has on its books $1.8 billion in property, mostly real estate. Like other Washington bureaus which have outlived their usefulness, WAA will not die completely. Most of its 2,550 employees will be transferred for close-out bookkeeping chores to the new General Services Administration...
...Pals. Hunt hotly denied that he had ever used any influence. He was "just an errand boy," he said, helping small businessmen to find their way around Washington's federal bureaus. Of course, he knew Harry Vaughan and had entertained him at a few cocktail parties, but he wouldn't think of asking him, or his other friends, to influence Government contracts. Though Harry Vaughan readily admitted their friendship, many of the other "friends" smiling down from Hunt's office walls promptly said that they didn't know him. They pointed out that it was easy...
...only a matter of days before the big invasion, when some 150,000 graduating college seniors would fan out over the workaday U.S. in search of jobs. What kind of people would they turn out to be? This week, after interviewing deans, campus placement bureaus, business recruiters and seniors, FORTUNE gave an answer...