Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Re your article, "Hold Barred," included in the Radio department of TIME, April 24, be it known to you, sirs, that song lyrics need not be guilty of lingual tergiversation with a Krafft-Ebing tinge in order to get themselves barred from the Great Chains.
During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era...
A Works Agency would merge Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration (both independent), the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Public Roads, the public buildings branches of the Treasury's Procurement Division and of the National Park Service (now Interior) ; also the U. S. Housing Authority (Interior).
To the Department of Agriculture would go the Farm Credit Administration, Federal Farm Mortgage Corp. and Commodity Credit Corp. (all now independent).
To the Chief Executive, as parts of the President's immediate executive setup, would go the Budget Bureau (now in the Treasury Department), the Central Statistical Committee and Board (independent), National Resources Committee (independent) and Federal Employment Stabilization Office (since 1935 a name only in Commerce).