Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both houses, he raked into the hides of "certain obstructionists" who had stampeded his program. They had ignored his plan to increase the terms of state officials from two to four years and his proposed constitutional amendment to reorganize the state's 100-odd commissions, boards and bureaus under tight executive control...
...Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith denied that Magidoff had ever used the diplomatic mail. McGraw-Hill said that the queries were round-robin copies sent to several of the World News bureaus. Magidoff had not answered the query about underground plants. Nevertheless, Russia's Foreign Office ordered Magidoff out of the country...
...Statler, the common denominator busily multiplied himself. Will Clayton arrived for lunch to give him much-needed advice on how to set up a Government bureau-in this case one of the most prodigious bureaus in history. Lawyer "Tex" Moore arrived. He and Hoffman sallied forth for a conference with John Steelman. They returned to the Statler. State Department officials arrived with sheafs of reports, requisitions, and advice on what phases of the interim program needed immediate action...
Convinced by war experience that the basic character of the Newsmagazine need not be changed by a newsgathering setup, TIME now has a world-covering organization. Working under Hulburd's direction are TIME bureaus in 13 U.S. and Canadian cities, plus 85 part-time stringers in other localities. In Washington, the TIME office has 13 correspondents and 14 staff assistants. Abroad, TIME has 15 bureaus in key cities and 36 stringers elsewhere...
...outermost circle is the Associated Press report, other news services, the newspapers, and TIME'S correspondents. On Thursday, TIME'S New York office has story suggestions from the bureaus. Editors there send correspondents detailed queries. On Thursday and Friday the correspondents are busy getting answers to these queries. Meanwhile, in New York a writer and a researcher are assigned to each story...