Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methods." Not Iong ago a civil servant who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production expressed the general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't the Beaver producing the planes?" "Oh, yes," said the complainant, "he's producing them all right. But, my dear fellow, the methods! They're dreadful...
...people. . . . Roosevelt believed in putting the common man first . . . Roosevelt believed in the good-neighbor policy, among individuals and among nations. . . . Roosevelt believed in peace through preparedness. . . . Roosevelt believed in freer world trade and a higher standard of living. . . . Roosevelt was its [democracy's] eager servant and faithful defender. . . . Only Roosevelt had the unusual combination of many months spent as a boy in European countries, a comprehensive knowledge of history, experience as Assistant Secretary of the Navy . . . access to the day-by-day information . . . and wisdom to relate that information to its significance for America. . . ." All told he mentioned...
...pushed in. The glare from the open door of the furnace shone with ghastly brilliance on the faces of Trotsky's three bodyguards, on duty to the end, of his attorney, Albert Goldman, and of the small, meek, devoted woman who had lived with him as wife and servant for 38 years...
Chief reason why NDAC has been able to thread a decisive way through Washington mazes is that its guide (and secretary) is a veteran civil servant named William Henry McReynolds. Reputed to know more about the ins & outs of the vastly proliferated Government structure than any man in Washington, leisurely "Mac" McReynolds is as deadly accurate as George Marshall would like his officers to be. Scottish and canny, he has worked in every department of the Government as payroll employe or efficiency expert since he left his law office in Battle Creek 34 years ago. For Herbert Hoover he helped...
Other decrees provided for the removal of any civil servant deemed unworthy of his post, and stipulated that Government jobs or commissions in the Army and Navy could be held henceforth only by persons whose fathers were French citizens. The word "Jew" was not mentioned in a single decree, but "Jews not wanted" signs began to appear in shop windows...