"He slipped "sideways" into an old-fashioned government office complex."
"(I am convinced-although I have no statistical evidence to back it up-that antitax, antigovernment, antiunion sentiments grow anytime people find themselves standing in line at a government office with only one window open and three or four workers chatting among themselves in full view.)"
"Less than ten years earlier, in 1928, Mellon had been appointed to oversee the fifty-million-dollar development of a series of new government office buildings."