Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arnold: "I take it you don't desire exclusive control...
...radio broadcast recently sponsored by the "Guardian," Frank S. Hopkins, a Nieman Fellow, declared that Congress should delegate to specialized bureaus and administrative agencies the detailed tasks such as fact-finding or investigations of current problems, "while retaining for itself the ultimate control over policies." Superficially this seems like an admirable proposal, but some thought about its possible ramifications reveals the fallacies...
...likely that in order to put the best-trained men in the right jobs this proposed bureaucracy could be placed under the Civil Service Commission. One source of a president's power and his party leadership is his control of patronage. Should he be unable to pass out jobs in the present agencies as well as in the proposed bureaus, his only resource, since patronage is essential to his position as national leader both of country and party, would be the creation of temporary councils, commissions, and the like. Such a top-heavy executive structure would only end whatever democratic...
...trouble is," Hopf continued, "that efficient management is the efficient planning, control, organization and coordination of human and material resources in an enterprise and the Washington galaxy of bureaus and agencies don't organize that material...
...necessary for Congress to delegate to administrative agencies and bureaus the more detailed tasks with which it is encumbered, while retaining ultimate control itself over policies," said Frank S. Hopkins, Nieman Fellow, and reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun, in a radio broadcast over station WEEL, last night...