Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dodge. They set up a public furor, got the city's newspapers solidly behind them. In May, convinced that they were being deliberately impeded, they took the extraordinary step of barring an assistant district attorney from their proceedings. After this clean break with local officialdom, their next move was to plump their rage and scorn and indignation square on the doorstep of New York's Herbert...
Final function of the day was a dinner given by President Vargas at Itamaraty Palace for Rio's officialdom. There President Roosevelt warmed Brazilian hearts by declaring: "You have done much to help us in the United States in many ways in the past. We, I think, have done a little to help you, and may I suggest that you, with this great domain of many millions of square miles, of which such a large proportion is still unopen to human occupation, can learn much from the mistakes we have made in the United States...
...belongs to the Klebergs who inherited it from their Grandfather Richard King, who founded it before the Civil War. With their 125,000 head of red Santa Gertrudis cattle, with 500 Mexican vaqueros as retainers, they run their ranch practically as a state of their own, independent of Texas officialdom. No State highway has been allowed to cross the King Ranch, and further to protect their privacy, the Klebergs have had many miles of their land made into a State game preserve...
Neither Comrade Litvinoff nor anyone else outside of German, Japanese and possibly Italian officialdom knew precisely what it was the mere rumor of which had so upset Moscow. Because dispatches from Japan are always severely censored, the best indication seemed to be that Japanese official censors passed last week dispatches in which Tokyo correspondents claimed to have heard 1) that Emperor Hirohito had before him for signature a German-Japanese form of declaration approved Nov. 13 by a committee of the Japanese Privy Council and Nov. 16 by the full Council; 2) that this declaration will constitute "not a military...
...young" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Just before leaving Rome last week he was made a general in the Fascist Militia, arrived at Berlin with a gold eagle on his cap and gold epaulets on his shoulders, to be greeted with deafening German hells and an imposing turnout of Wilhelmstrasse officialdom headed by Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath. Thus strikingly Count Ciano made his debut on the world stage last week as Europe's newest ranking statesman...