Word: officialdom
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...national convention seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in June. Silent, too, was fun-loving Mayor James John Walker of New York City, whose business agent has been missing for months, at the prospect of further investigations by the Legislative Committee into the private finances of the city's officialdom...
...stood the Sheriff, to sing the praises of his henchmen. His secretary, who testified that his duties were "nothing in particular," was "a good all-round man." His undersheriff, who banked a mysterious $662,000, and his deputy sheriff, whose political club harbored gamblers, were represented as paragons of officialdom...
...spite of a year-long muckraking inquiry into the city government, which is Tammany Hall, swept the Hall into complete municipal control once more. The Democratic State organization had hoped to elect a majority to the Assembly and thereby emasculate the Legislature's investigation of New York City officialdom, but when the vote was counted the Assembly was still Republican by a working majority of 5. The investigation will continue...
...persons and personages involved, three stood out last week with special clarity. First there was the Reformer?pontifical Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislature's committee, lord high inquisitor into New York City officialdom. Second there was a grey, little old horse doctor named William Francis Doyle, the culprit of the moment, the witness through whom the Reformer hoped to get at the Ring. Third there was Judge Benjamin Cardozo, personifying...
Last Friday the baseball game showed up the human side of those austere and dignified members of the faculty better than Mr. Hoover's new secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to see their elders take in good humor an occasional personal jibe. They came back satisfied that after all faculty men are not entirely unsympathetic, inhuman pedagogues. Yale News...