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...perhaps difficult to begrudge the Masters a lessening of their workload, but selection of the members of their Houses represents one of their most important and crucial tasks. As Masters, they should not retreat from...
...hostile Democratic machine, Endicott Peabody has won a high elective office in the Commonwealth. He brings to the Governorship ambitious plans for reforming many of the archaic, corrupt practices of Massachusetts government. Peabody has proposed constitutional reforms which would strengthen the authority of a woefully impotent executive, reduce the workload of an overburdened legislature, and strike at corruption in Massachusetts by ending the confusion which surrounds much activity on Beacon Hill...
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, clear-eyed, poker-backed and 85 this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went to Yankee Stadium to toss in the first ball in a nostalgic two-inning game between Yankee oldtimers and their erstwhile opponents from the National League foes...
...shaped up as the most lopsided cup challenge in years. The U.S. team had been racked by dissension. Ham Richardson, the U.S. top-ranked player, was dropped by nonplaying Captain Perry Jones as a singles player on the ground that his diabetic condition made him unfit to handle the workload, complained bitterly and publicly that he had been treated shabbily. Even U.S. Pro Promoter (and part-time team coach) Jack Kramer had conceded victory to the Aussies...
...Memo-Passer. Parkinson offers two reasons for the phenomenon: 1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals"; 2) "Officials make work for each other." Is Official A's workload making him miss the commuter's special? He will not split his functions with B, a potential rival. Instead he will create two subordinates, C and D who in a relatively short time will also accrete two subordinates apiece. Although soon seven men will do the work formerly done by one, none will be idle, for "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion...