Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overseas works like this: the Basic News desk in the newsroom receives the huge flow pouring in from all news and radio services and Federal bureaus, processes it for distribution, sends it on an intermit teletype circuit to all language desks, to NBC and CBS short-wave departments. This file of stories becomes the basic news...
...only the big metropolitan papers that have helped season TIME'S editorial people. The head of one of our foreign news bureaus got his first training in journalism on the Martin, Tenn., Weakly County Press & Martin Mail (weekly circulation 2,240), writing about crops being marketed and calves being born. One of our Senior Editors was a reporter for two years on the weekly Far Rockaway Journal-while the man who heads our editorial office in San Francisco broke into journalism through a job on the Sun-Star in the town of Merced, California (population...
...served a long apprenticeship as researchers for either TIME, LIFE or FORTUNE. And many of our best writers came to TIME straight from college and developed right here in our own shop, serving part of their apprenticeship in New York and part in one or more of our news bureaus overseas...
Economy. Senator Harry F. Byrd's committee was already hard at work on plans to slice the budget wherever fat appeared. (Many a Senator and Congressman would join in the surgery more out of distaste for New Deal bureaus than love for saving.) But there would be more oratory than knife-wielding: the budget called for cuts of $458,000,000 in nonwar expenditure, and few observers believed that Congress could raise this figure above a billion...
...regional OPA and WPB offices headed by and staffed with Republicans. This political unorthodoxy extended even to the Solid South: the OPA regional rationing officer (eight States) is Georgia's G.O.P. national committeeman ; Georgia's OPAdministrator campaigned for Willkie in 1940. Said a prominent Missouri Democrat: "Those bureaus [are] all full of Republicans and mugwumps and carpetbaggers, fellows we never heard of before...