Intelligence Office

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, noted in a recent report that private contractors comprise 63 percent of Homeland Security's intelligence-office workforce; the report (see page 64) says that the department's current plan, to reduce the proportion of contractors to 50 percent by 2015, is "unacceptable." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The business is now in such ill odor that intelligence-office servants are proverbial for worthlessness and all the worst qualities of the class. ❋ Various (N/A)

My usual course is to turn such cases over to Mrs. Crowfield; and it is to be confessed that this worthy woman spends a large portion of her time and wears out an extraordinary amount of shoe-leather in performing the duties of a self-constituted intelligence-office. ❋ Various (N/A)

Its intelligence-office has had nearly fifty thousand calls for advice and help in a single year, and twenty committees from its membership actively co-operate in different lines of work. ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)

It should be a place where capitalists may go as to an intelligence-office, confident of finding there the assistants which they may need. ❋ Various (N/A)

This wholesome, instinctive dread of social isolation is so strong that, as every city intelligence-office can testify, the filling of situations is easier, or more difficult, in proportion as the place offers more or less companionship. ❋ Jane Addams (1897)

Every intelligence-office will soon be ringing with the cries of combat, and all our kitchens strewn with pig-tails and bark chignons. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Roberts: "No; Agnes engaged her at the intelligence-office, and told her we should meet her here, and she had to go back for her purse, and left me to explain." ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

In lieu of quarters to army intelligence-office ... .. ❋ Confederate States Of America. (1864)

"Well," said the lady, scornfully, "if you went and got your servants from an intelligence-office, and had to look up their references, you wouldn't hold them in very much honor. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)