Word: bureaucrat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unchanging, merit-system Civil Service. Obscure bureau chiefs, chief clerks, directors of their deputies, holders of jobs which are virtually permanent so long as their party stays in power, these underlings have exercised great influence over Cabinet officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President's hands. President Hoover explained that he did not purpose to accept these resignations-except where a minor official might be. deemed inessential or might attempt to stand in Efficiency's way. Aside from post masters, a President...
...Bureaucrat Young. Clarence M. Young, Director of the Department of Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...
...Commissioner of Education for the State of New York, college entrance requirements are not complex enough. To the bewildered applicant the appalling program of examinations and the mass of official documents which must be signed and sworn to before one is formally approved, seem sufficient for the most exacting bureaucrat. But not for Doctor Graves...