Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely in the hands of politicians who concentrate only on their present term of office with especial reference to its effect on the possibilities of reelection. Under the conditions which Senator Nicholson advocates, it is hard for one to visualize any definite upturn in the calibre of governmental officialdom...
...streets bordering and enclosing Washington Square Park. They promised to keep 10 ft. away from street intersections and entrances to the park, neither to hawk nor solicit passersby, to make no litter, to pick up their campstools and easels and go home at nightfall. Foreseeing one obvious objection of officialdom the committee added in its petition that the moppets of Washington Square would be exposed to no nudes, no political propaganda...
...Senate Finance Committee was treated, in Washington last week, to an act "in one" by one of the nation's oldest and most famed actor-author-managers- William A. Brady, 68. Not unacquainted with Washington officialdom, Mr. Brady served the Wartime propaganda organization by directing film publicity. Last week he came, with many another of his profession, to protest the 10% amusement tax passed by the House and now on its way with the rest of the tax bill to the Senate...
...deeper than the Herald would suggest. Looking to their elders for examples of an acceptable code of ethics, the offending undergraduate officials find on one side shameless dishonesty and on the other helpless complacency. Their natural reaction is to regard graft as a legitimate profit, the assumed right of officialdom. The immediate consequence of such an attitude firmly established in the minds of these college men becomes tragically obvious when one considers that they are destined to fill responsible positions in the world. There is probably need for some such disciplinary action as the Herald proposes, but any complete solution...
...half-dozen recent debunking farces about heroes, press-agents and high officialdom echo through Happy Landings, but several sequences-notably the one in which the 'leggers and the Moca-loca magnate get the hero to endorse Prohibition- engender good-humored laughter...