Word: officialdom
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...capitalist friends' cheeks. But things have changed in the past year. The growth of Hitlerism, formal recognition of U. S. S. R. by the U. S. and the possibility that Russia may soon take out a full League membership have left the capitalist world more sympathetic to Soviet officialdom than at any time in the past 15 years. Shrewd Comrade Litvinoff realized that this time it was necessary for him to do more than embarrass his disarmament colleagues for the benefit of the Moscow Press. He presented, therefore, two concrete proposals to jerk the delegates upright in their seats...
...neither readers nor publishers would be satisfied. Yet almost an exact parallel of that tragedy occurred in the Hotel Continental apartment of Premier Gaston Doumergue last week. Mention was limited to a few slender paragraphs in New York newspapers and a close-mouthed silence on the part of French officialdom...
Perhaps the recent occurrence is a coincidence, or perhaps French officialdom clings conservatively to old and tried excuses...
...purpose of this letter is not to defend the particular sex questionnaire, with which I have no connection. I have no idea how much scientific validity and value such an investigation may have. But I do wish to call attention to the rotten attitude of Harvard officialdom toward sex. Why do they blush the minute sex is brought out into the open? Why do they insist on pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar...
...SIMPLE but lawful way to get around the cumbersome provisions of the securities act may be found by American companies through the co-operation of commercial instead of investment bankers. This is the interpretation placed by officialdom today on the news that a syndicate of eight large commercial banks of new York and Boston had agreed to make a two-year loan to the American Metal Company...