Word: bureaucratism
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...West African Negroes. Exceedingly well informed on colonial matters, he wants protectorate rights, on a par with Morocco or Algeria, for all French colonies. He would like to be the first colonial Senator and, eventually, Minister of Colonies. Last week he was in trouble -along with a retired colonial bureaucrat named Pierre Francois Tallerie...
Such a question is not as irrelevant as it would at first seem. A history of at least the last 25 years of American government could be written around the bureaucrat's encroachment on the sphere of the representative legislature. The New Deal did not start administrative legislation. It perfected a system which began with the first regulative commission in the roaring sixties. Congress could not pass laws to provide for every possible eventuality. It had to give wide discretion to the men who administered the laws...
...bureaucrat from way back, the new premier is not popular, has never held an elective office. His entire official career has been spent in the Department of Justice and the Privy Council. Both these institutions are surrounded by a forbidding wall of secrecy, are regarded by liberal Japanese as respectively the dungeon and citadel of reaction...
...last name, General Ismet Pasha took his from the Battle of Inönü, in 1921, in which he commanded the Turkish troops who routed the Greeks. Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands, the deafer Ismet...
...harmless bureaucrat chiefly remembered for reducing electric rates in the Rio de Janeiro Federal District, President-designate Americo will be amenable to back-seat suggestion. His sole January opposition, outside of noisy but insignificant Fascist and Communist candidates, will consist of onetime Governor Armando Salles de Oliveira of the State of São Paulo, which is still bitterly unreconstructed by the Vargas Revolution...