Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration is going to have another fling at making sense of its patchwork of press and information bureaus. Plans for it were cooking last week. It was a plan of Rooseveltian caliber; and it added more alphabet to the soup...
...BOARDS & BUREAUS...
...OADR, OGF, OCR, OLLA, OSRD, SCS, SSB, SSS, USSS, USES, USIS. Hardly a man was now alive who knows or needs to know most of them. If he did, he could not find them. They were moving: REA was on its way to St. Louis, one of 14 peacetime bureaus which had moved or were moving to make more Washington room for war agencies. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is now in Philadelphia, the Patent Office in Richmond. To Kansas City will soon go FCA (Farm Credit Administration), to Chicago the Interior Department's divisions of Fish and Wild...
Supply. Most dramatic, most drastic change was the centralization, under one head, of the old, hydra-headed bureaus of Army supply. General Somervell, whose job has a lot in common with Admiral Robinson's (see p. 38), will see that the Army has what it needs when & where needed. Onetime New York City WPAd-ministrator, where he was a whopping success, Somervell is quietly hot-tempered, moves in on what he wants with a sophistication belying his contention that he is "just a country boy from Arkansas trying to get along in the big city...
...Robinson's job was strictly a post-Pearl Harbor development. For 80-odd years the Navy's tiers of bureaus-Bureau of Ordnance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, etc.-had functioned like little feudal states. Bureau chiefs were jealous, prerogative-minded, ensnarled in procedure. Many a Secretary of the Navy talked wistfully about simplifying the Navy, but nothing was done until Pearl Harbor rocked Frank Knox. The two-ocean Navy, due for completion in 1944, was needed in 1942. Panting for construction speed, Knox created a new Office of Procurement and Material...