Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extension and complete modernization of the executive branch of the government, on a scale surpassing any proposal of reform before, is suggested by Mr. Roosevelt, in favoring the report of the Brownlow Committee on Public Administration. He plans to absorb 100 commissions, bureaus, and agencies into twelve departments, including two new cabinet posts, so that he may keep his finger on all with greater ease. The White House management will be enlarged by six executive assistants, with "a passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power...
...bold reform through Congress, Mr. Roosevelt characteristically asks for general authority and leaves the details to be worked out after Congress has handed over the sword; in other words, when it is too late to change anything. The President complains he is so overworked that he cannot adequately discharge his duties, while, in corroboration, the Brownlow Committee believes that the executive branch has grown up haphazardly. As an added enticement to Congress, it is thought that the whole idea saves the "most costly bureaucracy in history" thirty millions...
There is no doubt that this comprehensive program of reform is an excellent remedy for the evils of our formless executive branch and that it will give the federal government a modern, efficient management, with elimination of much waste. Yet it cannot be forgotten that at the same time Mr. Roosevelt is manifesting his desire for more power...
...labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers to join unions. Next year followed TVA, to insure Government operation of Muscle Shoals for which he had been vainly struggling for a decade; the year after Nebraska's unicameral. One other major reform which he still hopes to leave behind him, is an amendment putting an end to the Electoral College and providing for the direct popular election of Presidents...
...virtue of being superintendent of the International Reform Federation with offices at Washington, portly, white-crowned Dr. William Sheafe Chase, canon of the Episcopal Church, has for the past ten years been the ex officio No. 1 U. S. Reformer. Having devoted a lifetime to denouncing vice and lobbying for purity, 79-year-old Canon Chase last week retired. Into the superintendency and the Washington office, where U. S. vices are alphabetically cataloged beginning with Billiards and ending with Theatre, stepped a seasoned reformer named Clinton Norman Howard, 68. He announced that the Federation, endowed with $250,000, would bend...