Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these brave words, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in January 1937 launched what looked at the time to be the most far-reaching project of his Administration to date: a gigantic plan to reorganize the entire executive branch of the Federal Government, intended among other things to kill the U. S. spoils system...
...Presidents ever acquired as much political prestige as Franklin Roosevelt had in December 1936. Few have lost as much as he lost in 1937. Crowded off the Congressional stage by the fight to enlarge the Supreme Court last spring, the plan to reorganize the executive branch was crowded off again this winter by more practical concerns. By last week, with the country apparently back in the trough of at least a Recession, the Reorganization Plan had reemerged. Because it gave the President's enemies in Congress a fine excuse- ill-supported by the bill itself-to argue in effect...
...present slump was merely the sharpest pinch of a long campaign of studio skimping & saving, fortnight ago engineered a general four-day work week agreement with the studios. And last week, the Screen Actors Guild was facing the problem of 4,000 members of the Guild's junior branch, chiefly extras and occasional players, for whom work has been so scanty that they have been unable to pay union dues. Since no actor in Hollywood can get a job without a Guild card, Guild officials were considering issuing temporary working cards to delinquents, permitting them...
...Debated a bill embodying Franklin Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the executive branch of the Federal Government...
Shipowners were also well pleased by the move of the powerful New York branch of the N. M. U. to strip ships' committees of their power to discipline men during voyages. While the effect of this self-discipline was generally good, some shipmasters disapproved the principle-they believed it might mean divided authority. The proposal may meet intense opposition within the union, but the leaders favor it and there is little doubt of its passage...