Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because China has in wily and resourceful Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a military leader who has set himself up as Dictator, he last week was the elected goat of all Chinese officialdom. Craven President Lin, craven Premier Wang and the whole craven Chinese Central Political Council met in Nanking just before offering champagne toasts to the Japanese Ambassador and solemnly adopted a resolution urging Chinese resistance to the Japanese but stating that they must naturally leave the supreme decision to Generalissimo Chiang who was in Szechwan Province fighting the Communists...
...first floor of Dudley Hall will be the new commuter social center, University Hall announced last night. Coincident with this news which ends for a time at least the dispute that has disturbed officialdom for four months, came the report that a group of graduates has volunteered to administer the new home of the commuters...
...French officialdom rules Tahiti with blue laws that are only half-heartedly enforced. The natives are required not to drink spirits, steal openly, sing after 9 p. m., kill their unwanted babies. The one prohibition that has really hurt the tourist trade has been that of taking monkey-toed Tahitian girls out of their pareus and putting them into cheap print dresses. Last week this matter reached Paris and French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin, a Parisian who has lately been preaching cooperation with the colonies, for the sake of French exports...
...world's economists held their breath. By last week Sweden was so solvent that it moved to redeem the last $13,000,000 of a $30,000,000 bond issue marketed in the U. S. in 1924 and not due until 1954. For the first time taciturn Swedish officialdom, through the National Debt Office, gave credit to the managed currency system. Last week some economists agreed with the Debt Office while others were not so certain...
Education on a help-yourself, if-you don't-see-it-ask-for-it basis has come to Harvard, a head-scratching officialdom at the university realized today as it wondered what to do with 350 students who demand instruction in a course in which provision for only 275 students has been made...