Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for Squeeze. UNRRA men in Hunan find it practically impossible to determine how much rice is actually on hand. Chinese officialdom, far more conditioned to famine than to organized relief, or more concerned with "squeeze" (timehonored graft) than with efficiency, often seems utterly callous or thoroughly inept. There is no effort to control private rice supplies. Minor officials of CNRRA-UNRRA's Chinese extension-are afraid to make decisions. They will watch a village starve and report it back to UNRRA as dramatic evidence of famine and the need for more help, instead of sending the villagers...
...interview yesterday, Van Wyck looked back on fifty years of service at Harvard, beginning in 1896 when he became the secretary of Dudley A. Sargent. Sargent pioneered in turning out physical education teachers in a newly formed summer school. Some of his innovations caused consternation among college officialdom...
...Ottawa's Citizen noted that "four individuals . . . with Russian-sounding names" had registered at an Ottawa hotel. Officialdom had an attack of jitters too. Trumpeted Ontario's Premier George Drew: ". . . The time has not come when Canada is going to accept as its national emblem the hammer & sickle...
...strikes had been bound to come; the only question was who would lead them and who would lay the pattern for settlement. After nearly four years of the wartime no-strike pledge, union officialdom was itching to show its mettle, and prove its worth to its constituents...
MacArthur's purge of officialdom stirred most Japanese more than Hirohito's scuttling of his divinity. The new parties and the press, consistently more liberal than the Government, gleefully belabored Shidehara's "do-nothing" administration. Cried Tokyo's influential Yomiuri Hochi: "The pursuit of those responsible for the war will soon be made by the people themselves ... up to the Emperor himself if they continue to cling to their positions without any thought of repentance...