Word: echeloning
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...motion an order to strip an estimated 2,000 second-echelon Government executives of Civil Service protection, permitting Republicans to take the jobs...
Dwight Eisenhower and other top-echelon Republicans last week agreed on a successor to G.O.P. National Chairman Charles Wesley Roberts. Their choice: New York's Nassau County Surrogate Leonard Wood Hall, 52, a tall, bald, former U.S. Representative (1939-52), and onetime chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (an experience that would be valuable for the national chairman in the 1954 congressional elections...
...announced with surprising speed after Stalin's death, shows how the party dominates the state in Soviet Russia. The Big Five (outlined in red) of the new Presidium of the Council of Ministers (a sort of policymaking inner cabinet of the government) are all members of the ruling echelon of the Communist Party, the Presidium of the Central Committee. Malenkov, the new Chairman of the Council of Ministers (i.e., Premier), is listed first in the party hierarchy, with the other members appearing in the order given in the official communiqu...
...opening days of McCarthy's Voice of America investigation, a low-echelon State Department officer put out a memo advising employees to use their "discretion" about answering questions of committee investigators when no Senator was present. McCarthy heard about it and protested. After Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith got the facts in the case, he hustled up to Capitol Hill for a conference with McCarthy. The offending memo was discarded, and State employees were ordered to cooperate with investigators...
...After telling the McCarthy committee that derogatory material on employees sometimes strangely disappeared from State Department personnel files, departmental Security Agent John Matson was switched from his desk job to a pavement-pounding assignment. It was a low-echelon switch which Dulles would probably never have heard of if McCarthy had not hit the headlines by protesting about reprisals against Matson. Within a few days Matson was restored to his desk...