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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reorganization Bill 1) empowers the President to reshuffle any or all of the 100-odd agencies under the executive branch; 2) calls for a single Civil Service Administrator instead of a three-man commission; 3) splits disbursing and auditing functions by abolishing the 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...
...Democratic landslide promised to refrain from "all radio activity in the best interests of all the people": Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Last week Father Coughlin, back on the air again for the last three months, was scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon. When he had done so, it was apparent that if the U. S. press and the U. S. Congress had forgotten him, there were plenty of radio listeners who had not. Roared the frantic radio priest against the Reorganization Bill: "It will mean that it's none of the people's business...
...After all, haven't we been boring our readers long enough? What stoops! Now that the building's going we don't have to drink in the middle of the street any more." He puffed up what amounted to his chest in pride. "For generations, suh, Lampoon men have done their drinking in the gutter...
...your National Scholarship plan and also your plan for "limited enrollment." To put it frankly, Dr. Conant. I'm sort of griped. My friend Mr. Littauer just gave you something pretty big, I'm told, and my aunt Mrs. Nieman also contributed in a small way. I've also done my part, I think, since I've supported a whole flock of scholarships. What I'm coming to is where does my son Pete come in? I naturally want him to go to Harvard and follow in my footsteps in the higher income brackets. Are you going to exclude...
...light, it has become expedient for him to administer the bill well, if only to redeem himself in the eyes of the nation; and for it to be expedient that the administrative agencies be reorganized well is the best assurance the nation could have that this will be done...