Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is step No. 2 in reorganizing the executive branch of the Government. Step No. 1 was the transfer of the Patent Office from the Interior to the Commerce Department. For many moons, there has been general agreement that there ought to be a reorganization to get rid of duplication, overlapping functions and a thousand and cue causes of inefficiency for which poor organization is responsible. A special commission drew up a law for reorganization, but Congress has not enacted...
...more valuable. The purpose of the School is distinctly stated to be an objective study of international affairs, through lectures by experts, and first-hand investigation of the workings of the League of Nations. Naturally such a School will appeal primarily to students who intend to go into some branch of the diplomatic service, but it should also prove interesting to students who are interested in the less professional side of international relations...
...Supreme Economic Council, as its name suggests, is concerned with industry, finance and commerce. In its Presidium, which consists of 12 members, M. Trotzky will take charge of the electrotechnical branch and will, doubtless, attempt to give effect to the late Lenin's aphorism: "Socialism plus electrification means Communism." "He will also be in charge of the scientific technical department and last, but not least, Chairman of the Concessions Committee, which supervises, gives (and takes away) foreign concessions...
This was not at all to the liking of C. W. Peterson, manager of the Farmers' Produce Association of North Branch, Minnesota. Mr. Peterson wired the Department of Agriculture, anent the oncoming 1925 potato shortage, to "keep your mouth shut." Afterwards, in calmer mood, Mr. Peterson explained that no insult to the Department was intended, that his frank advice arose from the farmers in his vicinity promptly planting so many potatoes that a 10% increase over 1924 was now imminent...
...Mitchel Dougherty, University of Delaware, Wilmington, Del., English; Edward French Dow, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., Government; Henry Matran Eller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Classics; Raymond Matthew Fuoss '25, Altoona, Pa., Chemistry; Stowell Coolidge Goding, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., Romance Languages; Granvyl G. Hulse, University of California, Southern Branch, Los Angeles, Cal., History; Edgar Morris Hymans, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, O., Economics; Donald Wallace MacKinnon, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., Psychology...