Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drafted by South Carolina's Byrnes -who helped conduct the fight against the Court Plan-the Reorganization Bill 1) empowers the President to reshuffle any or all of the 100-odd agencies under the executive branch; 2) calls for a single Civil Service Administrator instead of a three-man commission; 3) splits disbursing and auditing functions by abolishing the Comptroller General who has previously done both, giving the first half of his job to the Director of the Budget, the second to a newly created Auditor General; 4) sets up a Department of Welfare; 5) empowers the President...
When Marcel Rochas, a celebrated Parisian dressmaker, opened a branch shop in Manhattan last September, merchandisers spoke of his "business daring." No other important Parisian had ever dared sell retail in Manhattan in competition with stores like Saks-Fifth Avenue which bought from him wholesale in Paris. The sort of ladies who made up M. Rochas' customers babbled incoherently of his sleek hair and out-of-door complexion. Last week the ladies were back buying at Saks-Fifth Avenue and talking of somebody else's outdoor complexion, and again there was no branch of an important Paris dressmaker...
...sound bill and an essential one; every other President has tried to reform the executive branch, and none of them have gotten to first base," William Y. Elliott, professor of Government and a member of the President's Business Advisory Council said yesterday as he discussed the Byrnes Bill in an interview...
Plan. Idea that the executive branch needs repair did not originate with its present chief. Ever since the turn of the century, Presidents have been trying to untangle the underbrush of overlapping duties, conflicting authorities and mechanical inadequacies of the various bureaus, commissions and other agencies responsible to the executive. The bill which the Senate was debating last week, a considerably modified version of a report of a committee headed by a University of Chicago political science lecturer named Louis Brownlow, proposed five major changes...
...when Joe Shoong was 24, he started the first China Toggery in Vallejo, a little town at the end of San Francisco Bay. After the 1906 earthquake he moved to San Francisco. Ten years later he opened his first branch, in Sacramento. And ten years after that, with ten stores in California, he began to do business in the northwest-Seattle, Portland, Tacoma...