Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Follette-Monroney report strikes hard at the difficulty of placing responsibility for governmental policy. Congressmen loudly wail that the function of policy formulation has slipped through their fingers and has been lost in the intricate maze of the executive department. The reasons for this sapping of legislative authority can be found in the anachronistic organization of Congress itself...
...enthusiasm as the recent suggestion of whipping-boy Wallace. Besides recommending adoption of an honest-to-God budget, increases in Congressional salaries, appointment of an administrative assistant for each solon, and the lifting of petty but time-consuming burdens such as the supervision of the District of Columbia, the report advocates a revamping of the overlapping, over powerful committee system. Congressional committee have long been the stronghold of the "rugged individualist" and the chief means by which a small group o men could deny the right of the majority to legislate. Therefore the reform urges that Senate standing committees...
Jubilee ticket selling is no longer a problem for the '49 Class Committee chairman Buel S. Smith '49 announced at last night's meeting. Treasurer Gunther K. Rosinus '49 indicated in his final report that tickets are "definately sold out," and that Adams House rolled up the largest total of buyers...
Finally, by requiring the OPA to report its plans for self-liquidation on October 1, Congress is, in fact, extending the Agency in name only. Business and farm groups will be encouraged to flaunt price violations in the doomed Agency's face or else hold goods off the market for the remaining nine months of OPA life. The big fight between small groups and the public is on. Not until an uncrippled OPA is given another year's lease on life will the NAM and farmers' silly symphony be silenced and another 1929 avoided...
...financial report, Reynolds Co. said reassuringly: "Frankly, one of the problems was the occasional development , of a small air bubble in the barrel of the pen which sometimes prevented the free flow of ink to the ballpoint. Literally thousands of perfect pens were, therefore, returned to the retailer as being defective...