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This week the General got a shove. The Hoover Commission, which has been busy digging away at inefficiency in the Government, has just come up with a plan for a thorough shake-up of the whole National Security Organization, the first plan to overhaul completely the 1947 compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than...
...Hoover was the 31st President [TIME Jan. 24] and Truman the 32nd [TIME, Jan. 31], was F.D.R. just a dream (good...
...TIME (Jan. 24) absentmindedly followed Who's Who and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which count Grover Cleveland twice-as both 22nd and 24th Presidents-thus make Herbert Hoover No. 31 and Franklin Roosevelt No. 32. But Harry Truman, with the backing of the Congressional Directory, has decided that he is the 32nd President...
...Approved 356 to 9 the Reorganization Bill, which would enable the President to shake up the Executive Department as proposed by the Hoover Commission...
Looking back at past U.S. depressions, from Martin Van Buren to Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman got a good-natured laugh when he mentioned his own 1921 bankruptcy-"when the businessman got into politics," meaning himself. But he turned dead serious when he talked of the need for preventing any such panics in the future by "planned" (i.e., not controlled) economy. Said the President: "It is absolutely essential that the economic structure of the United States of America remain absolutely sound and prosperous, for the simple reason that ... we have become the symbol of what governments should stand for-the welfare...