Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news was brought to the President as he sat in the long ballroom of the Willard Hotel, surrounded by newspaper veterans, bigwigs from all over the U.S., Washington officialdom, the diplomatic corps and all the quasi-humorous paraphernalia of the semiannual Gridiron dinner. The dinner had been the same, the entertainment duller than usual. Massachusetts' tall young Republican Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., had spoken for the Loyal Opposition...
Berlin's opinion of the importance of the war at sea was soon made plain. For months, hoping to avoid stirring up additional U. S. sympathy for Britain, German officialdom has spoken to and of the U. S. only in a low voice and in polite terms. Last week it changed its tactics, decided to see whether a threat would work. A Foreign Office spokesman warned: "The entire attention of the German Government is centred upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal. That proposal is nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act. I speak with...
...Harvard officialdom has shrouded the construction of the Widener Annex in a cloak of mystery, to mask its progress with high, forbidding fences. This is an unwise attitude. The completion of the building requires student supervision. Only under the watchful eye of students can the work continue safely and efficiently; for, if the construction is supervised only by a totalitarian oligarchy of contractors, countless dangers are imminent...
...under a window of Tokyo's Police Headquarters last July, the Japanese Foreign Office announced that Jimmy had committed suicide (TIME Aug. 5), Jimmy's friends did not believe it. They had no evidence, but they knew Jimmy and they knew the cruelty and deceit of Japanese officialdom...
...nations hailed the coming-of-age of native Christian leadership in Asia. But once a missionary district becomes independent, it is exposed to enemies from without and within. In Japan that independence came gradually after World War I, was paralleled by a growing hostility to Christianity in Japanese officialdom. Since churchmen and mission boards outside Japan made no conspicuous effort to stiffen Japanese Christians' backbone, concessions to nationalism became inevitable...