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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thirty-five public utility executives, led by Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric, filed into the Cabinet Room, pledged nearly two billion dollars to the President's Momentum-for-Industry program. Total pledges: ten billion dollars. ¶ To the White House went Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, asked President Hoover to practice his own plea by preventing the release of 1,000 civilian employes at the U. S. Navy Yard at Brooklyn...
Federal Prisons. "We need some new...
...selfishly interested. ... All administrative activities should be placed in groups under singleheaded responsibility ... while quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions should be removed from, individual authority and assigned to boards and commissions. ... It is desirable that we first have experience with these groups in action before we create new departments. ... I can see no hope for sound reorganization unless Congress be willing to delegate its authority to the executive who should act upon approval of a joint committee of Congress...
...Enforcement. "It is the most serious issue before our people. . . . I have appointed a commission. . . . I am confident it will make a notable contribution." Major Hoover commissions now functioning?6; new Hoover commissions called for in his message?...
...Panama Canal set new records for the year: 7,029 transits, $27,128,889 in tolls; 30,663,006 cargo tons carried. A battalion of engineers will be sent to Nicaragua "before the next dry season" to resurvey and study the proposed canal route across that country...