Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partially to compensate for the lack of a parade, Soviet officialdom declared a Charlie Chaplin festival, ordered a Shakespeare revival. Last year admiring Russians sent Chaplin a bear cub in the care of Tanker Skipper Mihail Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name...
Last week the House of Commons set a jubilant stage for Winston Churchill in his imperial role. For two days men of all parties hailed Commonwealth and Empire, bucked up officialdom for the coming conference of Dominion Prime Ministers (TIME, April 24). Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, most persistent of Churchill-baiters and a recent convert to Empire, called the common tune: ''Sir, we have no intention, any one of us, of throwing the British Commonwealth of Nations overboard in order to satisfy a section of the American press or anyone else...
...Fairy Tale. Elizabeth was only a few minutes old when a black-coated, stripe-trousered symbol of British officialdom thrust itself upon her. On April 21, 1926, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks peered anxiously into her red, squally face, went away to affirm that she had been born. Her life, not exactly woeful, has been like that ever since...
Texans called these illegal emigres "wet feet." Some border employers complained that U.S. officialdom was too zealous in its efforts to stop the traffic. Border Texans were also howling mad because their local Mexicans were being "lured" in turn by northern and western farmers...
...officialdom would disclose only the staid, though strong, language of the U.S. note and Dev's counternote...