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...months, a bipartisan commission, created by Congress, has been tracking down waste and inefficiency in the executive department. It has been a journey through organizational chaos for 24 teams of experts. The commission's chief is Herbert Hoover, whose administration somehow got along on $4 billion a year (now it takes $43 billion) and with about 604,000 civilian employees (now there are more than...
Last week, 74-year-old Herbert Hoover emerged from this governmental jungle to give Harry Truman a preliminary report at the White House. He had a number of recommendations. Shedding of unnecessary red tape on small Government purchases could save $250 million a year. It now costs $11.20 to process an order for a $10 purchase. Perhaps $3 billion could be saved by regrouping 60 administrative agencies into about...
Harry Truman gave his blessing to the reorganization plan; he would be glad to save the people's money and his own time. But the big test on establishing efficiency and economy lay not with the President but with Congress. Early in January, the Hoover Commission would make its full report. Most of the proposed changes would require congressional approval. Thousands of jobs would be wiped out. It remained to be seen how far politicians would go to save money...
Bricker suggested that a commission be formed, similar to the Hoover group now studying the executive branch of the government, to investigate the divisions of power between the levels of government. Gaus commented that the proposal was "all right," but that it "wouldn't do too much good...
...Enforcer. The Al Capone and Waxie Gordon stories will remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: "Remember, now; I want that man Capone in jail...