Word: bureaucratism
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...less to bequeath, but as his doomsday drew near, Adolf Hitler dictated a last will and political testament. The document, discovered by U.S. Army Intelligence in the suitcase of a minor Nazi bureaucrat, was made public last week...
Died. General Korechika Anami, Army bureaucrat and War Minister in the Suzuki Cabinet; and Vice Admiral Takejiro Onishi, originator of Kamikaze ("divine wind," i.e., suicide) tactics; both by harakiri, induced by the Japanese surrender; in Tokyo...
Died. Leon Fraser, 55, world financial expert who began a varied career as a poor, adopted farm boy at North Granville, N.Y., ended up as president of the billion-dollar First National Bank of New York, after being a reporter, teacher, soldier, bureaucrat, lawyer, diplomat; by his own hand (gunshot); on the lawn of the farm-summer estate where he grew up. He left notes blaming his melancholia: "Except for this mental depression, I have everything to live for. . . . Sorry to be a nuisance this...
Meek, enthusiastic, little Samuel James Wanous (rhymes with "on us"), 37, business-administration professor at U.C.L.A., calls himself "just another of those damned bureaucrat professors" and conducts classes under the firm impression that sooner or later one of his students will shy an inkwell at him. Dr. Wanous has good reason to be apprehensive. With his colleague, energetic Dr. William Francis Brown, 33, he lectures on such contentious subjects as the Wagner Act, the Wages and Hours Act, the economic weapons of labor and management, the causes of industrial unrest. His students: management executives and union officials from the Douglas...
Plow-chinned Chester Bowles, boss of OPA, showed himself a unique bureaucrat: he publicly admitted that he had made a serious mistake-in fact...