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Truman's proposals were largely based on recommendations of the Hoover Commission, a non-partisan body established in 1947 to work out ways of simplifying the government's bureaucracy. The Commission reported in 1948, and last year the president sent his first seven plans to Capitol Hill where six passed. Under a regulation, the President is empowered to make changes in his branch of government so long as neither house of Congress disapproves of his plans before a set date--this time May 23. This rule was intended by Congress as self-defense against interest-group pressure--pressure more likely...
...Senate even laid it aside at one point, at the urging of Ohio's Taft, to give parliamentary privilege to one of the executive reorganization proposals which would automatically become law unless either the House or Senate killed it by May 23. The plan, not recommended by the Hoover Commission, but dear to the heart of Mr. Truman, would abolish the office of general counsel of the NLRB, whose present occupant, Robert N. Denham, annoys the President and union labor. Taft argued that the plan was just a devious trick partly to nullify the Taft-Hartley Act. The Senate...
...next few days, Congress will discuss the reorganization of the Executive Branch of the government. President Truman started sending plans to rework various sections of the Executive to Capitol Hill last year when he submitted seven, six of which were adopted. He based his recommendations on reports by the Hoover Commission which Congress established in 1947 to suggest ways of untangling the federal bureaucracy. This March, Truman submitted 21 more proposals slated to go into effect on May 24 unless Congress disapproved of them...
...fire. Opponents of the proposals claim that in some cases the President has modified the original Commission recommendations out of existence. Truman's plan No. 12 (to centralize authority in the NLRB) which they cite as an example, did not have the support of the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Reports. This voluble nation-wide organization, ex-officio publicity outlet for many members of the Commission, states that the Commission never proposed this change...
...Brown's "Harvard Yard in the Golden Age," and a study of Milton's influence on English poetry which was 11 years on a Littlefield carriage. Littlefield's were never political partisans, they have maintained strict surface neutrality; they have maintained strict surface neutrality; they typed sons of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt through College...