Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Claude Wickard's Departmental reorganization was his second attempt to streamline his sprawling bureaus. Now, in generalities, he told of the work ahead: The Department is obligated to assure an adequate supply and efficient distribution of food to meet war and essential civilian needs. Waste must be curbed. The U.S. will continue to be the best-fed country in the world. The task is mostly a matter of managing huge U.S. food reserves and keeping housewives informed so they will keep in the program, said...
...which have been scattered through eleven Washington agencies are now mostly in his hands. He has full supervision of setting food requirements for Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilians. He takes charge of food marketing, distribution, priorities, allocations and decisions to ration. His cumbersome Agriculture Department, with all the bureaus that have grown up over the years, is simplified into a production division and a distribution division-a framework that will permit Wickard to reshape his organization for greater efficiency...
...party is run by 260 Central Executive Committeemen drawn from war areas, provincial capitals, Government bureaus, from diplomatic posts in Washington and London. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek runs China, but he almost always defers to the party's Executive Committee...
...Japanese educational outrages have been worst in China. Of 108 Chinese colleges, 14 were razed, 15 damaged by bombs, 25 forced to close. Others are still being bombed. Mission schools in Occupied China, mostly undisturbed before Pearl Harbor, are now closed. Education is organized under local bureaus of education, each with a Jap "adviser." Instruction in Japanese is compulsory and the instructor is invariably a Jap, charged with caring for the "thought and morals" of his pupils...
...thought he knew another reason, and it was the blackest charge in his book: "Possibly the motive for this policy of mishandling war facts is to keep from stirring up the people and Congress, in the fear that the people, through Congress, might force some reforms on the executive bureaus." In effect, Congressman Maas charged the military leaders with concealing the facts to cover their mistakes and the mistakes of their subordinates. How this is done, according to Congressman Maas...