Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 changes in Government agencies must be made within 60 days and is still subject to Presidential veto, which can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote...
...proper functions the University can avoid a Labor Board hearing which would prove annoying even though it revealed a group of minor employees out of hand and not an anti-Federation cabal in University Hall. Better control of the janitors would enable the University to make its oft-heralded claim of neutrality undoubted fact. The University should act promptly...
...general efficiency of the organization but merely to satisfy the various interested parties. As the sparks flew between Arthur Morgan and his subordinate associations, Mr. Roosevelt though it was their turn to move, not his, and sat back satisfied. The rupture came over Senator Berry's marble claim, for Mr. Morgan was thoroughly disgusted by then with the corruption, waste, and monopolistic intention of his organization. But it was Morgan's demand for a thorough Congressional investigation that brought the President face to face with the rather doubtful condition of the T.V.A. Not relishing any embarrassing revelation so close...
...Exchange governing committee. In open-mouthed horror, it heard the charges against Dick Whitney and then preferred the Exchange's most serious accusation - "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." Next morning, well knowing it might mean the end of the Exchange's claim that it requires no added SEC supervision, President Gay grimly mounted the rostrum of the Exchange and suspended Richard Whitney & Co. for insolvency (TIME, March 14). Wall Street's first reaction was outright incredulity that "The Corner" had not bailed out its favorite broker. But it was speedily apparent that...
...stories. A fan magazine was offering a dance scholarship to the prettiest face in the country. Judy Parks, her Kappa roommate, sent in Marjorie's picture. That was practically all there was to it. Zanuck's boys were around soon after winner Miss Weaver arrived in New York to claim the prize. So you'll see her dancing in Sally, Irene, and Mary, Marjorie playing "Mary," Fred Allen doing the comedy...