Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is...
The sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury...
To the State Department he transferred the foreign offices of Commerce and Agriculture. (Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson Jr., already miffed by the elevation over him of Edward J. Noble to Harry Hopkins' elbow, promptly resigned.) Also, the Foreign Service Buildings Commission, hitherto independent.
Soon the U. S. State Department topped Lady Lindsay by issuing further instructions to U. S. citizens who might meet the King & Queen:
Old Chairman Carter Glass* of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who remembers when the whole U. S. Govern-ment ran itself on a billion dollars a year, last week rose to his feet in horror. Before the Senate was a bill appropriating $1,218,000,000 to run the Department of...