Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith is Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget, a job which this year means supervising the spending of more than 100 billion dollars. A Congressman once said: "We grant the powers and Harold Smith writes the laws." Says Vice President Wallace: "Harold Smith is the most important man in this Administration...
...Bureau of the Budget is generally thought to be a branch of the Treasury which collects and adds up what the various departments of the Government would like to spend during the coming year, and presents the figures each January in a bulky tome called the U.S. Budget. Except that the Bureau was transferred in 1939 from the Treasury to the Executive Office of the President, this is true. But it is only the starting point, the excuse, for Harold Smith's real assignment. If he had the title that fits his job, he would be called Gen eral...
They All Spend Money. The Bureau of the Budget has been in existence only 22 years. Before that, every Government agency applied individually to Congress for its yearly appropriation. In its first 1 8 years, under the first Director, Charles Gates Dawes, and his successors, the understaffed Bureau did little but harp on economy and round up the various figures for Congress. But as early as 1918 Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt had urged on the House Appropriations Committee a plan to create a budget bureau which would be the central control agency of the Government...
...reasoning was simple and logical. Gov ernment agencies do 10.001 jobs, from building battleships to advising farmers about the pink bollworm. But they all do one thing in common: spend money. A Budget Bureau should be in an ideal position to survey and coordinate the whole activity of the Government, inquiring into purposes and projects, checking performances, uncovering and eliminating extravagance, duplication, confusion...
Pressure from Within. Up & down the long corridors of Washington's huge new Census Bureau Building raged a pitched battle. OPA's "slide-rule boys," the Leon Henderson carryovers headed by gangling "5-ft.-20-in." Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith, grappled with the new "let's-be-reasonable boys," headed by stocky Lou Russel Maxon, the Detroit advertising wizard whom Prentiss Brown hired to humanize...