Word: officialdom
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Kennedy knows a number of fellow enthusiasts in University officialdom, but has not found any other "Jazz fiends" in University Rall, his home territory. In the Faculty, he eites particularly David Owen, professor of History, with when he frequently gets together for jazz conferences...
Wise in the ways of the extra-University world, Axt guessed that the financial estimate accompanying Shepley's plan could hardly bring joy to that Alumni officialdom faced with the money-raising chores for any War Memorial. The figure was a minimum of $3,000,000 exclusive of an equal endowment for operational expenses. No one doubted that it would require that sum easily to meet the mythical ideal envisaged in the sheaf of blueprints...
Dutifully Covre made the rounds again, endured the usual waits and misunderstandings with minor officialdom. Returning one day from a five-hour wait at the price control office, he found angry customers waiting at his shop. He had never kept anyone waiting before. The customers canceled several orders...
...jovial, mule-stubborn, Missouri-born Republican, Bob Denham switched to the Democrats in 1938 to help beat Franklin Roosevelt's attempted purge of conservative Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. Officially he has never switched back. He first turned up in Washington officialdom in 1933 to help reorganize the closed national banks, after a law career in Seattle and Manhattan financial circles. Since 1938 he has been an NLRB trial examiner...
Monday afternoon's tantalizing headlines both raised delicious visions of the new order at Harvard College and created the less attractive possibility that John Harvard might find himself sharing his solitary grandeur with a bronze tribute to Carrie Nation or Dean Gildersleeve. But apoplectic University officialdom banished mounting hopes and fears by explaining that what the Boston Press labeled "co-education" was no more than the unsensational policy of joint instruction that has been pursued for four years...