Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt, as empowered last month by act of Congress, started in a small way to reorganize the U. S. Government...
...President's six new assistants authorized by the Reorganization Act would be assigned to personnel work throughout the Administration...
...Congress, the Reorganization Act's best friends, Representative Lindsay Warren of North Carolina and Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina (TIME, April 3), had support well lined up. But their sponsorship of reorganization did not necessarily mean that they wanted all the agencies continued forever. Take WPA, for example. Jimmy Byrnes has ideas about that. Last week he politely shelved his bill to put WPA into a Department of Public Works (TIME, Jan. 23) but he did not shelve his idea, in which many another friend of Economy concurs, of making the States & cities share the cost of Relief...
Notes between the notes: This week's collection of facts and rumors assumes such proportions that we have to stack it up at the head of things. No. 1 is that the Goodman brother act has ceased. Since the formation of the present band, brother Harry has been playing bass and brother Irving has been doing trumpet work on and off--mostly off. Now definite word arrives that Harry is leaving to devote full time to his Pick-A-Rib joint on 52nd Street in New York, while brother Irving is just leaving. This is not to be considered...
Following Billy's tug, Vag pressed in to see Corpulent Carrie. As he feared, she was aggressive, and eyed Vag and Billy right away. "Say, young man, lemma borrow that kid there a minute for my act. I won't hurt...