Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lend-Lease Coordinator in London in the early war years he had won the respect and confidence of the British people. As Ambassador he has been altogether successful with British officialdom and public, has done a first-rate job of restoring embassy staff morale (which went to pot under his predecessor, aloof John G. Winant); has shown an intelligent, sympathetic, effective understanding of Britain's position and policy...
During the war Japanese officialdom frowned on go as a time-waster. After it came off the blacklist, millions of fans stayed down in the dumps-the game was not the same without Chinese-born National Champion Wu Ching-yuan. Wu had become a convert of Aiko Nagashima, high priestess of the Jiwu cult of Buddhism, and she had said...
...important matter was the mysterious death-by-gunshot of Siam's young King Ananda (TIME, June 17). Siamese officialdom has insisted that the death was purely accidental. Police Chief Phra Ram Indra even shot a pig before the whole Parliament to prove that the absence of powder burns on Ananda's face meant nothing...
...public is not likely to see the film until Washington officialdom decides definitely that it wants the U.S. public disturbed. Until Washington makes up its mind, commercial distributors don't like to run the risk of making regular audiences uncomfortable. Meanwhile, clubs and other private organizations may rent or buy prints of The Pale Horseman through Brandon Films, Inc., 1600 Broadway, New York...
...latest gesture to the upward spiral of living costs, the University has granted pay raises to as 10 percent to its non-academic employees. Yet Harvard officialdom seems callously unconcerned about the needs of its student workers who depend upon the pay of their term-time jobs to meet a sizeable portion of their college expenses. Wages for students employed by or through the University have remained unchanged since long before the war. Baby-sitters still receive 25 cents an hour; House librarians, 35; students working in the dining halls or on odd jobs are paid 60 cents an hour...