Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Borrowing a phrase from Majority Leader Wallace White, he was ready to cast his vote against Lilienthal as "temperamentally unfitted to head any important Government agency." Said he: "Lilienthal is a typical power-hungry bureaucrat, one of the group of men who . . . have defied Congress . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes...
...commission, which, as Lilienthal said, "will be pioneering in uncharted fields," includes, besides the former T.V.A. administrator, a physicist, a banker, an editor and a government bureaucrat. By law they are required to devote all their working hours to the atom problem. Except for Lilienthal and Sumner Pike, a former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, none of the new boardmen has had experience in governmental activity. It would be disastrous, after wresting the power of the atom out of the hands of the Army, to put it in the hands of a logrolling candidate of Senator McKellar...
Wihelm Frick, Minister of the Interior in Hitler's first cabinet and longtime bureaucrat of the regime...
...Convert. Various tatters in the blanket of secrecy reveal Josip Broz as an Austro-Hungarian Army private during World War I. Destiny, in the anonymous guise of a War Office bureaucrat, sent him to the eastern front. There, he was captured by (or deserted to) the Russians, was packed off to Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore...
...suite at the Plaza Athenee Hotel. They knew they could not quote him, and that most of their questions would be parried. But he surprised many of them by fending them affably, in fair French or good English. About himself he was properly mysterious: the wise Russian bureaucrat shuns personal publicity in the foreign press...