Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 to hire six administrative assistants. Major basis for the claim that Reorganization would give the President dictatorial authority lay in the wording of Title I, whereby Congressional disapproval of any of his proposed...
...just as efficiently in the opposite direction, promptly produced his own resolution for investigating TVA, rushed it through the Senate. To pacify the House, Leader Barkley compromised on a joint investigating committee of five Representatives and five Senators, to be provided with full authority and a $50,000 expense budget. Rabidly pro-TVA blocs in both Houses were pleased that the committee was directed to investigate not only the administration of TVA but also activities of hostile power companies...
This is Mallinckrodt's big chance to redeem itself in Harvard eyes--not by raising its usual stink, but by helping the coming Fourth of July to go over with a bang. Let Mallinckrodt's explosives budget be increased greatly. Some of the $2.34 left over from the Nieman Fund might perhaps be sacrificed for this purpose. Or the Laboratory might lay off a man in the Department of Nauseating Odors, thereby saving over $1.39 in adjustable clothespins. With all this money at their disposal, Mallinckrodt should be able to get off a real killer of a firecracker...
...currently organized, disbursement of Federal funds and auditing of Federal accounts are both duties of the Comptroller General. The Senate Reorganization Bill would abolish his office entirely. Supervising expenditures would become the job of the Bureau of the Budget, whose director would be responsible directly to the President instead of to the Secretary of the Treasury as he is at present. Auditing Federal expense accounts would become the job of an entirely new official: an Auditor General, to be appointed by a new Joint Congressional Committee on Public Accounts. Object of this change is to make spending and auditing functions...
...that if the "China incident" continues, it might be best to cancel the 1940 Olympics. Next day the Japanese Olympic organizing committee, pooh-poohing opposition as coming "from a small and not very strong group of extreme Nationalists or Fascists," announced a 5,000,000-yen ($1,450,000) budget for a Tokyo Olympic village. On his way to Cairo, Egypt, where the International Olympic Committee was shortly to convene, Japan's Delegate Jigoro Kano snorted: "I know of no reason for anyone saying anything about abandoning the games. The war in China? That's nothing...