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Last week, virtually certain of the Democratic nomination to be President of the U. S., Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York became 54 years old and, with family & friends about him, stood up at his dinner table to carve a 100-lb., electric-lighted replica of the White House, fashioned in cake for the occasion by Ryoochi Hida, his chef...
Five days later, without for a moment stepping out of his role as Governor, Alfred Emanuel Smith addressed the U. S. electorate. Formally, he was addressing only the New York Legislature. But he well knew others were listening. He called his speech "the eighth and last annual message I shall present to your Honorable , Bodies." He made it a history of government in New York State since he first governed there...
...text in print, politicians perused it closely. It is just possible that an issue between Republicans and Democrats can be found before next November. But, issue or none, the Smith record must be the Democratic answer to the record of the Coolidge Administration. In his historical message last week, Governor Smith, using remarkably few phrases such as "all along I have stood for . . . etc." and "as far back as 1920 I appointed . . . etc.," outlined his record as follows...
Reconstruction. In 1919, Governor Smith appointed a Reconstruction Commission of private citizens from many a profession and rank of life. This Commission helped the Governor demobilize the state and deal with War-neglected problems, such as unemployment, housing, public health, transportation, food distribution, business and industrial unrest. The Commission also suggested that the government needed reorganization. The Commission perfected a plan, based on recommendations of a constitutional convention which had been held in 1915. The plan was adopted in 1925 by constitutional amendment. It did away with conflicting boards and bureaus; distributed all state functions among 18 departments, of which...
Budget. Fiscal reform accompanied administrative under the Smith regime. Governor Smith was presently to submit to the Legislature his state's first Executive Budget, certifying the state's needs "in the order of their importance" as determined by a special bureau. The Legislature had power to reduce, but not increase items, and to add items subject to the Governor's veto...