Word: plans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reorganization. "Reorganization is a necessity of sound administration. . . . The presentation of any specific plan enlivens opposition from every official whose authority may be curtailed ... of citizens who are 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...
...announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return for $30,000,000 worth...
...level, fervent tones. "It is an attack on the authority of the state. You would force us, Mein Herr," turning upon Dr. Hugenberg, "to carry on foreign policy as though we were the prisoners at a criminal trial. . . . We must pay no more reparations? We must reject the Young Plan? What positive proposition do you have to make for other political measures...
Since before many years the undergraduate at New Haven may face a similar decision the results of the room applications at Cambridge ought to be viewed with especial interest. Undergraduate opinion there has been consistently hostile to the House Plan, yet the University authorities have gone ahead with no appreciable alteration of their original plans. Now the undergraduate must either refuse to acquire an intimate knowledge of the coming Harvard or accept the usual inconveniences of living under experimental conditions. We hesitate to predict the proportion who will choose the latter course, yet undoubtedly many will acquiesce in it against...
...House Plan is in operation. After living for a week in his new quarters in the cupola of the construction shack of Lowell House the Vagabond officially lays claim to the distinction of "first settler", and offers his less informed readers a report on the actual living conditions in one of the new houses...