Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that rules to put over the mailing scheme, was scheduled for induction last May. But Holzer knew his own plan so much better than his superiors that OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown got his induction stayed. Fortnight ago the crucial stage of the mailing safely past, Good Bureaucrat Holzer reported to Fort Myer, Va., was assigned to the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the Seabees. Given the Navy's usual week furlough before going on active duty, Clerk Holzer turned up at the New York OPA office, spent the week helping mail more Ration Books...
...Arthur manages to look very prettily flustered as the patriotic tenant who rents half her apartment to one Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn). Dingle's inordinately long nose perceives that his landlady is far from satisfied with her fiance, Charles J. Pender-gast (Bruce Bennett), an effectively sickly-looking Washington bureaucrat. So Dingle sub-lets his half of the apartment to a "fine, clean-cut, high-living young man," Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). By the Hollywood law of mutual gravitation, the two are drawn together and the result is the usual ending, although a little more drawn out than is usual...
...never been a fair means of deciding what are proper wage increases." He demanded a 30% raise. > Growled John L. Lewis: "In March the coal industry wage negotiations will begin. . . . The men who mine the nation's coal will ask for bread. They will hope that a government bureaucrat will not hand them a stone." Mr. Lewis' bread: $2 a day increase for 450,000 bituminous miners...
...Stormed Jed Johnson: "These patronage stories sound very much like Henderson propaganda for the purpose of bailing him out with the public and making him appear as a martyr. The present Price Administrator apparently enjoys his role as he poses as a bully and a bluffer, a self-inflated bureaucrat who evidently envisions himself as a dictator...
...Manhattan, Frank Cohen, who in 18 months had puffed up a $5,000 investment into an ordnance empire with assets of more than $6,000,000 (TIME, Nov. 3). One was Franklin Roosevelt's old friend Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran. One was a lanky, jug-eared bureaucrat, Charles Franklin West, who no longer has a bureau...