Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson made his power felt in smaller ways, too. In a kind of gigantic game of musical chairs, he started shifting half of the Pentagon's 25,000 antlike workers into new quarters. He wiped out 57 overlapping and outdated service boards and bureaus. He ordered all armed service celebrations combined into one Armed Forces Day. He ordered the overlapping medical services merged. With an eye to small irritations, he cut down on -the private use of official automobiles. And to end intra-service wrangling in press and radio, he issued a directive "consolidating" the press faculties...
...spoke at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Worcester. "The professional ideal," Pound said, "is menaced by the development of great government bureaus and a movement to take over the arts practiced by the profession and make them functions of the government to be exercised by its bureaus in a super-service state which may become a service super-state...
...young Northwestern-trained lawyer, Stu Ball went to Ward's at 28, after five years of private practice. Quick to catch on, he was named assistant secretary within three weeks, secretary in less than a year and a half. Avery, who was often in trouble with New Deal bureaus, soon found that he had plenty of use for a keen legal mind. Ball, a big (6 ft. 2½ in.) man with a smooth courtroom manner, saw Avery safely through his many scrapes with NLRB-including the one that led to the U.S. Army's wartime eviction...
With the advent of TIME'S Canadian edition in 1943, we established a permanent news bureau in Ottawa. Since that time, as TIME Canadian's circulation and advertising volume have more than doubled, our Canadian coverage has grown steadily. We now have additional bureaus in Montreal and Toronto plus 26 string correspondents who are high-ranking journalists on Canadian newspapers. This Dominion-wide network of reporters represents an increasing effort to get the best possible coverage of the news in Canada...
...these and other bits & pieces of fact began to fill in the pattern of Dennis' life, other TIME bureaus were put to work investigating the important new leads that kept turning up. In New York, Miss Finn turned up the exact address of Waldron-Dennis' stepmother in Southern California, where James Murray, of our Los Angeles bureau, located her. A tip from Washington (about a phony name Dennis had used on a passport) was relayed (with a picture of Dennis) to TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau, which turned up the story of his activities...