Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days after the President had exhibited his sheath-knife, the House of Representatives voted 204-to-196 to kill his Plan to reorganize the executive branch of the Federal Government. Upon Franklin Roosevelt, the net effect was comparable to that of having his own party toss a yataghan 15 blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue and put it squarely in between his shoulder blades. Reason: unlike the battle over the Supreme Court plan, the battle over the Reorganization Bill involved no major issue except whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt was still the master of his party. Until the final votes were counted...
Plans to reorganize the executive branch date back to the turn of the Century. Franklin Roosevelt's plan, introduced just before the scheme to enlarge the court, resembled one proposed by Herbert Hoover. Recognized for what it was-a straightforward attempt to increase efficiency-it occasioned little indignation. The President's subsequent sad effort to streamline the Supreme Court naturally made suspect his efforts to streamline anything else. As redrafted and passed by the Senate, the Reorganization Bill's principal provisions allowed the President to shift executive agencies with certain important exceptions, appoint one man to replace...
...Harvard Reds in their statement to the CRIMSON called Mayor Lyons' attack a "direct, if clumsy attempt to link the investigation of the activities of the Cambridge branch of the Young Communist League to the general offensive against the appointment of Granville Hicks...
...Cambridge Branch Responsible...
...explained that the Harvard branch has no connection with the Cambridge unit, which he intimated was responsible for the distribution of Communist literature. The chapter regularly meets in the basement of the Holyoke Bookshop, he said...