Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 lay in the wording of Title I, whereby Congressional disapproval of any of his proposed changes in Government agencies must be made within 60 days and is still subject to Presidential veto, which...
...Among other miscellaneous improvements, the bill empowered the President to hire six administrative assistants, which he once said should be equipped with "a passion for anonymity...
Elizabeth Hawes thinks this is already a complete anachronism, that the time has come and that she herself has proved that U. S. manufacturers would do better each to hire a real designer and specialize in something the public wants, instead of herding frantically after the French or one another...
Most important was a decision on the Norris-LaGuardia Act which sharply limits the power of Federal courts to issue injunctions in labor disputes. A case arose in Milwaukee, when the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butchers Union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, appealed to E. G. Shinner & Co. to hire union workers only. The management refused, the union started picketing, and the company asked for an injunction to forbid picketing. District Judge Ferdinand Geiger decided that no labor dispute existed since no employes of the company were on strike, that therefore the Norris-LaGuardia Act did not apply, granted...
...condition of the U. S. Merchant Marine advised shipping lines to (1 build a new luxury liner larger than the Queen Mary, 2. go into the business of transoceanic air transport instead of building superliners, 3 stand on their own feet and not demand Government subsidies, 4 hire only union men, 5 hire more Annapolis graduates as ship's officers...