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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edwin L. Rice, 57, president of Rice Manufacturing and Aerial Transport Co. of Silver Spring, Md., has for 20 years devoted his spare time to submitting ideas to the U. S. Navy. Last week when the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, in its fourth week of hearings on Franklin Roosevelt'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Ditch | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Outside of Congress, main figures in the fight against the Reorganization Bill were as extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Yataghans at 15 Blocks | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Although the provision for a single civil service administrator to replace the present commission was one of the questionable virtues of the now deceased reorganization bill, the extension of the merit system "upward, outward, and downward" was widely hailed as a reform of revolutionary character, and its defeat was the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STALKING THE PATRONAGE WOLVES | 4/14/1938 | See Source »

That the entire country is commercially going to hell in a hack is certainly not true. While generally bad, business is not equally bad everywhere, a point not generally appreciated, but brought out last week when Dun & Bradstreet published in Dun's Review a nationwide chart of trade volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Where & Why | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Stressing the merit of the Bill's provision for six presidential assistants, Professor Elliott said, "If I were looking for faults, I would criticize the abolishment of the Civil Service Commission; I think it should be retained as an examining body. In the second place, the Byrnes Bill makes no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William Y. Elliott Speaks in Favor of Roosevelt Measure For Government Reform; "Bill Is Over Bumps," He Says | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

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