Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every President since Theodore Roosevelt has felt an urge to perform drastic surgery on the Government's multiplying bureaus. Each has asked Congress for a scalpel, in the form of a reorganization bill, but most of them got something that looked more like a rubber dagger. Congressmen always shuddered at the idea of a President whacking at patronage with anything that would really...
When Harry Truman made the traditional demand last spring, the U.S. Government had grown more lumps and bumps than a tree toad-1,141 bureaus employing nearly 3,000,000 people. Despite these admitted tumors, and the fact that the new President didn't seem like the sort of surgeon who would tattoo the patient after operating, just for laughs, Congress spent seven months in alarmed concern...
...Madame Perkins' roomy office in the Labor Department, he had brought the solid backing of Harry Truman, with carte blanche to do what he wanted. Many of the powers that should have been in the Department had long since been given piecemeal to boards & bureaus like WLB and NLRB. Even if labor lay low for a while, the new Secretary would have had plenty of work...
...news. He made his first appointment to the Supreme Court. He made tough-minded Robert Patterson his Secretary of War, gave his kudos and the Distinguished Service Medal to retiring Old Soldier-Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson. With one hurried stroke he had put the scattered war labor-relations bureaus under Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. With one brusque stroke he had cut Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis' job out from under...
...little easier. But it is just a plain case of out-New Dealing the New Deal." Said Representative Charlie Halleck, Republican Congressional Campaign Chairman: "This is the kickoff; this begins the [Congressional] campaign of '46. For the Democrats, it's just more billions and more bureaus...