Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explains Federal Civil Service Chief Franz Löschnak: "A title should describe precisely the level of employment of a civil servant and should be pronounceable, at the very least." Thus an Akademischer Oberrestaurator (restorer in a museum) will become a mere Oberkommissär, or first-class commissioner. A...
The elimination of so many hallowed titles has caused consternation in the civil service hierarchy. Said one grieving Ministerialsekretär of the waterways administration: "Our proud captains will become just controllers. It's like losing the command of an imperial battleship in order to conduct Vienna's...
> The infiltration of an informant into the top post of the United Klans of America, then largest of several major Ku Klux Klan organizations, was seriously considered in 1967. The plan was to organize a revolt against Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton at a Klonvocation and replace him with an FBI...
Why do film makers foul themselves up this way? Why mess around paying good money for the rights to Wertmuller's film and then have to pretend that her ironic perceptions about Sicily have anything to do with Los Angeles and the Imperial Valley? Why not just say, "O.K...
The President ran into his largest protest demonstration since taking office as he arrived at Los Angeles' Century Plaza hotel to address a $1,000-a-ticket dinner dance. Some 2,500 Imperial Valley farmers paraded with tractors, pickup trucks and buses, waving signs pleading for "fairness to farmers...