Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After consulting his Attorney General in order to avoid any legal faux pas such as President Harding's transfer of the Naval Oil Reserves to the Department of the Interior, the President issued an executive order transferring the Bureau of Mines to the Department of Commerce (see CABINET...
This is step No. 2 in reorganizing the executive branch of the Government. Step No. 1 was the transfer of the Patent Office from the Interior to the Commerce Department. For many moons, there has been general agreement that there ought to be a reorganization to get rid of duplication, overlapping functions and a thousand and cue causes of inefficiency for which poor organization is responsible. A special commission drew up a law for reorganization, but Congress has not enacted...
Inasmuch as the various departments and bureaus were set up by law, it requires another law to rearrange and simplify them. There is one exception. The Act creating the Department of Commerce gave the President authority to transfer to it other agencies of the Government engaged in statistical work, in research or in work connected directly with commerce...
...Saint-Gaudens, who, upon a Moorish tower by Stanford White, long adorned the summit of the famed hippodrome. After 56 conflicting proposals, it was last week decided to remove statue, tower, to New York University. Lawyer Elihu Root agreed to head a committee to raise funds for the transfer; architects McKim, Mead & White were appointed for the work...
...Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, he says, "was done, completed, admirably performed" when it drew up the Uniform Sales Act, the Uniform Conditional Sales Act, the Uniform Warehouse Receipt Act, the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, and the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act. After stating that the Uniform Stock Transfer Act was "perhaps still excusable," Mr. Hemphill added: "But then came the Uniform Partnership, Acknowledgments, Aeronautics, Desertion and Non-Support Acts -and then a real fever, a mad desire to make everything uniform.* There followed a wholesale production of nonsense, and the plant is still in 100% operation. . . . Mr. Madison...