Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...level Washington could best evaluate Halifax's long mission, and how well he had accomplished it-in Lend-Lease, joint command, victory and the possibility of United Nations. He had certainly done his best. History might yet surprise the newspapers by writing him down as one of the great ambassadors. The U.S. he was leaving would remember him as a good...
...bumbling, inefficient, nineteenth century Congress is not competent to cope with the complex problems of modern government. The need for Congressional reorganization, long heralded by political scientists, has been recognized by progressive Congressmen; and a joint, non-partisan committee, headed by Senator La Follette and Representative Monroney, has recommended a program of reform which is gratifyingly similar to that proposed by prominent university professors...
...legislative-executive cabinet. Sitting in this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative-Executive Council, whose function would be to resolve the perennial conflict between the two most active divisions of our government...
...Joint Council would openly declare administration policy, and while no provision is made for expelling a rebellious party member, a record of individual action on party issues would be made public. The cowardly anonymity of a "teller" vote, which was used in the House on the devitalizing amendments to draft legislation, would be no longer available to political opportunists. Adoption of the reform committe's proposals will increase party responsibility, enable Congress to discharge its functions more efficiently, and provide a government at once more responsive to popular desires and more capable of decisive action...
...Summer Joint Education...