Word: officialdom
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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...
...Frankensteen looked less like a trail blazer than a man just feeling his way around in a lot of trees. He had spoken as few ringing words about labor as possible. The reason: even his enemies in the union wanted him to be mayor (and thus out of union officialdom) so there was little point in it. Instead, to woo the public, he harangued audiences about Detroit's dirty alleys, its street-railway fares, tried hard to be everyman's friend...
...people. Raw materials and manpower are sorely lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy and the French public as a whole, some signs of recovery are visible...
...advised by 'Poon officialdom that an unwary Radcliffe girl once sent in a subscription check without the usual coercion of the circulation department. The incident proved such a shock that the staff, instead of the check, bounced into paralysis. After two frustrating years of silence from the boys, bloody but unbowed she sent another two bucks to Lampy's lottery...
...historic Plaza de Mayo, over 500 mothers and sisters of arrested university students gathered to protest. Mounted police rode into the crowd, bowled women over, swung sabers at recalcitrant heads. At a signal, the horsemen wheeled and repeated the performance. From the windows of Government House, Argentine officialdom looked on with approval...