Word: officialdom
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...frankly admitted warning President Hoover that if the R. F. C. made a huge loan to Detroit's big banks he would "denounce it from the housetops," but he asserted Washington officialdom from President Hoover down was opposed to the loan and for the same reason: inadequate security. The R. F. C., he said, was gun-shy after the public furor over Charles Gates Dawes's $90,000,000 loan and, aware of the nation wide banking crisis, was leery of sinking millions in Detroit. Furthermore R. F. C. Chairman Miller considered the loan "immoral" because the collateral...
...have it from good authority--well, pretty good--that, with that strange perversity which characterizes all officialdom, the majority of attractive girls have been placed in the top floors of the dormitories. Thus, in its own subtle way does the university do its bit toward elevating the standards of its young ladies...
...member of an old and distinguished family, having a judge for a father, a university dean for a brother. The other was a shanty Irish agitator. Complaint against one was that he was a corrupt official. The other claimed that he was the victim of corrupt officialdom...
...same. Some of us die-hards will persist in calling him "Major." Impudent young bloods will callously accept the new title, little realizing or caring that they are stamping on a fine old thing--a noble tradition. I, for one, regret this, and an bewildered by an officialdom which will commit such an act as this. D. G. Anderson...
...entirely in the hands of politicians who concentrate only on their present term of office with especial reference to its effect on the possibilities of reelection. Under the conditions which Senator Nicholson advocates, it is hard for one to visualize any definite upturn in the calibre of governmental officialdom...