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Fortnight ago Karl Mundt, re-elected last November although his isolationist record was under heavy attack, proposed, in a House resolution, that the U.S. set up a commission now to make a "realistic, bipartisan, non-political study" of postwar foreign and domestic proposals. His hope: "that America and the world can benefit from recommendations worked out in such an atmosphere of serious-minded, non-sensational deliberation...
...money ($1,735,000,000) as Franklin Roosevelt asked for but switching $125,000,000 from WPA's share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted...
...Instead of one man, the House called for a WPA administration board of three, bipartisan, to ensure against WPA's being wielded as a political sledgehammer. This simple provision was an indictment aimed at Harry Hopkins...
...Jackson has been the system whereby the victorious political party always assumes control of Government jobs. Daringly, the Reorganization Plan struck at this by giving the President power to "cover into" the classified civil service any minor office he wished, and to create, instead of the present three-man bipartisan Civil Service Commission which can be changed at the will of the President, a single Administrator, to be appointed by the President with the Senate's approval, for 15 years. The Administrator would be specifically delegated by the bill to submit plans for the development of a Government career...
...bipartisan groups which are responsive to the various organizations, like the A. F. of L., now coming out against inflation, are bound to prevent the inflationary elements from getting control of Congress...