Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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W. A. SWINGLE Detroit, Mich. > When M (Mobilization) Day comes, the U. S. can throw 1,000,000 men into the field within 48 hours [TIME, Aug. 22]. Backbone of this force would be the much maligned National Guard. -ED.
A Security Agency would take in the now independent Social Security Board, National Youth Administration (now part of WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (independent), also the old U. S. Employment Service and Office of Education (now in the Departments of Labor and Interior, respectively) and the Public Health Service (from the...
A Lending Agency would consolidate ten independents: RFC, Disaster Loan Corp, RFC Mortgage Co., Federal National Mortgage Association, Electric Home & Farm Authority, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Home Owners' Loan Corp., Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp., Federal Housing Administration, Export-Import Bank of Washington.
A Works Agency would merge Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration (both independent), the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Public Roads, the public buildings branches of the Treasury's Procurement Division and of the National Park Service (now Interior) ; also the U. S. Housing Authority (Interior).
To the Chief Executive, as parts of the President's immediate executive setup, would go the Budget Bureau (now in the Treasury Department), the Central Statistical Committee and Board (independent), National Resources Committee (independent) and Federal Employment Stabilization Office (since 1935 a name only in Commerce).