Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bureaucrat's Lawyer. The Black Tom case brought McCloy to the attention of a shrewd judge of men, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson. In 1940, when Stimsori went to Washington as Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of War, he made McCloy his special consultant on German espionage...
Then, on April 18, the Argentine Post Office Department announced officially that TIME henceforth was banned from the mails. Soon we learned that Foreign Minister Bramuglia thought the action of the Post Office was "outrageous," obviously the work of "a low-bracket bureaucrat...
...that this bill is going to give Washington dictatorial powers over the Impressionable Youth of the Nation are talking through their hats. The bill itself is drawn with a delicate feeling for states' rights touchiness; the money goes to the states practically without any strings at all. Any federal bureaucrat who attempted to tell a teacher how or what to teach would promptly be hung from them chandelier in the U. S. Senate...
...Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...
...this combination, Trippe adds meticulous planning-and an allout attack. Said one bureaucrat: "When you close the door to Pan Am, it comes in the window. And when you close the window, there they are, coming right through the wall." Trippe usually gets what he wants by getting there first...