Word: bureaucratism
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...chief targets is the proposal for a consolidated data center, which would computerize all the known facts concerning every U.S. citizen drawn from so cial security files, military records, census responses, school records, credit agencies, court records, tax returns, insurance forms, etc., and present them to the inquiring bureaucrat at the touch of a button. Who should be allowed to push that button is what Gallagher is worrying about. Says he: "The answer may be more important to liberty than that other big button we often worry about...
...magnetism can scare the people who have to deal with him. "He's a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," a bureaucrat who has confronted Dietz said last week...
...bureaucrat presiding over the nation's 4,815 national banks, Comptroller of the Currency James Joseph Saxon, 52, has swept away a lot of regulatory cobwebs, irritated two U.S. Presidents, feuded with much of the industry he regulates, and bickered with every other federal body involved in bank supervision: the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. Last week Arkansas Democrat John L. McClellan and his Senate investigation subcommittee lit into Jim Saxon-who naturally lit right back into McClellan...
...community a "very real and special service by poking fun and spoofing the hell out of despots on the bench." He ran an editorial asking for contributions to a Beadle Bumble Fund.* "The object of this fund," he wrote, "is to deflate an occasional overblown bureaucrat, to unstuff a few stuffed shirts and to promote the repeal of foolish and needless laws. There is entirely too much law and order in the world...
Thrust toward Learning. The notion that any federal bureaucrat, no matter how enlightened, should wield any influence at all in education would have shocked America's early settlers. Schooling was mainly a parental responsibility, and its aim was to make sure that children learned to read the Bible. The Constitution was silent on the matter of education, and schooling became a function of state governments, which delegated power to towns and local school boards. Still, the main thrust of education was directed chiefly at achieving spiritual and moral purity. Fresh ideas, however, had begun to emerge. In Europe, Jean...