Word: officialdom
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...year (and especially in 1951), the U.S. press, U.S. officialdom and the U.S. people are used to scandals in which somebody steals something, takes a big bribe, or runs off with another man's wife. But they were taken aback by the trouble at West Point-which raised more delicate and difficult moral questions than the customary hearty fare. After the first shock, the nation plunged into debate...
...afford to play it as long as he has Eva, who is equally at home in the role of the vengeful, bossy female. She draws the fire of cartoonists in neighboring countries (see cut). It is Evita, not her Juancito, who performs most of the hatchet work in Argentine officialdom. Evita, not Juan, slings great, vulgar sums of money around. Some people in -Argentina may be able to look upon Perón with a certain amount of detachment; nobody can be neutral about Evita...
Perhaps it would be too much to expect a new council to press forever for a principle which officialdom seems determined to ignore. This council gave up the struggle. It decided to admit that the deans can, if they wish, use the "good name" of Harvard as an excuse to regulate any phase of undergraduate activity. The council resigned itself to the deans' power to pass on a new publication's policy or to forbid a public performance, on the grounds that the "good name" of Harvard is at stake...
...Dean's Office, Council, and the undergraduate organizations themselves have been shouting for. Only a little cleaning up would remain to be done. But regrettably these exceptions are of such significance as to indicate that an excessively paternal regard for the Harvard man still lurks in the breast of officialdom. Perhaps not. Let us hope not. Certainly the rules have come a long way from the original version...
Williams became a gadfly in the ear of Washington's officialdom, demanding and pleading for a new trial. He got a break. The prosecutor received two anonymous letters from a man who said that he, and not Williams, was guilty. Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King denounced the letters as a hoax and the work of a crackpot, but on the strength of them, Williams' lawyers got a new hearing for him. But still Defendant Williams' troubles multiplied. Prosecutor King produced a police handwriting expert who solemnly testified that Williams' 18-year-old daughter Evangeline...