Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan would 1) elevate the Federal Security Agency to Cabinet status; 2) lump all Government housing under one agency; 3) abolish the office of U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines (July 4 is Philippine independence day); 4) scrap the NLRB function of conducting strike ballots; 5) transfer the jobs-for-vetefans function from Selective Service to the U.S. Employment Service; 6) transfer the Office of Contract Settlement to OWMR...
...announced business of the convention was to make ''one big union" out of six C.I.O. and one independent maritime unions.† But hardly had the 240 delegates seated themselves in the tobacco-fogged auditorium of San Francisco's Eagles Hall last week before they began to function as a strike strategy committee...
Harlan Stone again read the dissenting opinion. Seldom had he been more impressive or shown more vigor in delivery. His voice was clear and strong as he said: "It is not the function of the Court to disregard the will of Congress in the exercise of its constitutional power...
...Follette-Monroney report strikes hard at the difficulty of placing responsibility for governmental policy. Congressmen loudly wail that the function of policy formulation has slipped through their fingers and has been lost in the intricate maze of the executive department. The reasons for this sapping of legislative authority can be found in the anachronistic organization of Congress itself...
...this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative-Executive Council, whose function would be to resolve the perennial conflict between the two most active divisions of our government...