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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plan. Idea that the executive branch needs repair did not originate with its present chief. Ever since the turn of the century, Presidents have been trying to untangle the underbrush of overlapping duties, conflicting authorities and mechanical inadequacies of the various bureaus, commissions and other agencies responsible to the executive. The bill which the Senate was debating last week, a considerably modified version of a report of a committee headed by a University of Chicago political science lecturer named Louis Brownlow, proposed five major changes...
...does the saying "poor as a Chinaman" apply less than to Joe Shoong. His 1937 salary was $141,000; National Dollar dividends brought him $40,000 more. (He and his family own a comfortable 51% of National Dollar stock; most of the rest is owned in small lots by various less affluent Chinese.) He has one daughter at Columbia, another at Stanford, a son at a preparatory school, and he has built a school for some 350 children in the Cantonese village in China where his father was born. He lives in a large stucco house in Oakland...
...second step has been made in the act of complying with the terms of the Nieman bequest, and in taking it Harvard seems to have judged carefully and moved wisely. Not only are the qualifications of the nine Fellows in general high, but the fairly representative selection from various sections is almost comparable to the worthy theory of countrywide distribution behind the National Scholarships. Establishment of the Advisory Committee, to encourage and assist the Fellows in their study programs, will provide the needful administrative element; planning of discussions with leading journalists will supplement their work nicely. Several points, however...
...characteristic which will make this book popular among the reading public is the sincerity, wisdom, and quiet humor of the author. The people he talks about are described with the greatest reality, yet they frequently remind the reader of various rustic characters in fiction. But aside from the fictional element, the book contains a wealth of information on disorders of the body and their treatment. These are exact but not pedantically scholarly, so that the reader absorbs a great deal of medical information without realizing...
...head of the T.V.A., the President chose three men with opposite notions, not for the general efficiency of the organization but merely to satisfy the various interested parties. As the sparks flew between Arthur Morgan and his subordinate associations, Mr. Roosevelt though it was their turn to move, not his, and sat back satisfied. The rupture came over Senator Berry's marble claim, for Mr. Morgan was thoroughly disgusted by then with the corruption, waste, and monopolistic intention of his organization. But it was Morgan's demand for a thorough Congressional investigation that brought the President face to face with...