Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world will be discussed during the three-day program of the fifteenth Foreign Affairs School which will open next Tuesday, January 19, at 2:30 o'clock in Agassiz House, Radcliffe College. The program is sponsored by the Massachusetts League of Women Vters, acting in cooperation with its Cambridge branch and Radcliffe College...
...well as in federal administration before his election to the Presidency had given him an unusual preparation for the administrative tasks of the Presidency and his strenuous experience under the trying conditions of his first term made him realize the urgency of a thorough reorganization of the executive branch of the government...
...extension and complete modernization of the executive branch of the government, on a scale surpassing any proposal of reform before, is suggested by Mr. Roosevelt, in favoring the report of the Brownlow Committee on Public Administration. He plans to absorb 100 commissions, bureaus, and agencies into twelve departments, including two new cabinet posts, so that he may keep his finger on all with greater ease. The White House management will be enlarged by six executive assistants, with "a passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power...
...would have to worry about bread and butter. Although the suggested department of social welfare consolidates a multitude of agencies, there appears no good reason why Public Works should be rated important enough for a separate department, Terming the Interstate Commerce Commission a "headless, fourth branch of the Government, over which the constitutional Chief Executive has little control," the Brownlow Committee reveals how clearly it worked with the President and how it thought of his precious power...
...leaves the details to be worked out after Congress has handed over the sword; in other words, when it is too late to change anything. The President complains he is so overworked that he cannot adequately discharge his duties, while, in corroboration, the Brownlow Committee believes that the executive branch has grown up haphazardly. As an added enticement to Congress, it is thought that the whole idea saves the "most costly bureaucracy in history" thirty millions...