Word: officialdom
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...Minneapolis apartment house at 5:41 o'clock one afternoon last December, Editor Walter Liggett was riddled by five machine-gun slugs. Liggett's weekly tabloid, Mid-West American, had made a business of regularly denouncing the "alliance" between the underworld and Minneapolis and Minnesota officialdom. More recently, he had violently broken with his old political crony, Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Editor Liggett's murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking Attorney General Cummings...
Harris & Ewing is Washington's oldest and most conservative picture agency. Specializing in official portraits, it customarily takes great pains to curry official favor, stay in officialdom's good graces. In releasing this unusual photograph, however, Harris & Ewing did not merely neglect to explain the circumstances of its taking but captioned it as follows: "PENSIVE PRESIDENT PONDERS PROBLEMS. Washington, D. C. President Franklin Roosevelt, posing for photographers on his 54th birthday, is caught in a meditative pose. The photo was made a few minutes after he conferred with Secretary Henry Vallace, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Attorney General Homer...
...difficult to draw a picture of University officialdom in so short a space, but these outlines may serve to introduce Harvard men to characters who frequently appear in any report of Cambridge life...
From the point of view of officialdom; the University has spent $40,000 in rehabilitating Dudley Hall. What theory of economics makes them limit the clientele that will make their investment a paying proposition...
Because China has in wily and resourceful Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a military leader who has set himself up as Dictator, he last week was the elected goat of all Chinese officialdom. Craven President Lin, craven Premier Wang and the whole craven Chinese Central Political Council met in Nanking just before offering champagne toasts to the Japanese Ambassador and solemnly adopted a resolution urging Chinese resistance to the Japanese but stating that they must naturally leave the supreme decision to Generalissimo Chiang who was in Szechwan Province fighting the Communists...