Word: officialdom
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...British officialdom tends to think of a second front in terms of an all-out, huge-scale offensive requiring forces comparable to those of the main German armies. But the immediate purpose of the second front-diversion from the Russian front-could be accomplished with a lesser effort, involving no more than 500,000 men. A bridgehead diversion, provided Britain can hold control of the air, might be enough to compel a major Nazi effort to head it off. Once established, the bridgehead could be used by more massive forces. Even if there were defeat-even another Dunkirk-the effort...
Honest Judge Ferguson found Detroit's graft-ridden officialdom as helpful as a pair of handcuffs. County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea insisted that the smell in the police department was only an embittered woman's imagination-until he was convicted of obstructing justice. Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue-until he was found guilty of graft. And one of the first men Judge Ferguson indicted in the handbook racket was a policeman assigned to "protect...
...Seversky pregnantly observes that already big, experimental bombers like the Big and the Martin Mars can carry 18 tons of bombs nearly 8,000 miles. He charges that the U.S. would now- in 1942 -have great fleets of such bombers, able to assault Japan from Alaskan bases, if U.S. officialdom had been properly awake. But he fails to concede that the U.S. is now going into quantity production of bombers able to do many of the things which Sascha and the citizenry want done...
...began as a child prodigy; like Sibelius, he has been financed by his country. When he was seven, the foresighted Chilean Government shipped him off to Berlin to study under the great Liszt disciple, Martin Krause, paid all his bills for ten years. Arrau still stands high with Chilean officialdom. He is a member of its diplomatic service, received leaves of absence for his concert tours, travels on a passport which gets him almost anywhere...
...last days were black and sickening. At the mercy of unopposed Jap fighters, angry U.S. bomber crews had to take their few remaining Flying Fortresses from Javanese airdromes and flee to Australia. British fighter pilots followed; they had no more fighters to fly. Some of Java's high officialdom also fled; Lieut. Governor General Hubertus van Mook appeared in Adelaide, Australia, after the last hope was gone...