Word: bureaucrat
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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...
...felt that here was a man who might have done, when he was young, just such things as you had done (unless they were pretty bad), and that whether he had ever done them or not, you would meet in him a human being and not a bureaucrat. It was not that he could always save you or wished always to save you from academic penalties--and yet I well remember the first year of the Administrative Board of the College, when he was the oldest and I was one of the youngest of its members, how he always seemed...