Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1950: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 545, Resolved, that the House of Representatives Does Not Favor the Reorganization Plan Numbered 7 of 1950 Transmitted to the Congress by the President on March 13, 1950United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - 107 pages |
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... experts ? Mr. CONN . Mr. Chairman , to be frank with you , I think we have done a clearer job of this thing than the Hoover Commission did . Mr. KARSTEN . You have 75 directors ; is that correct ? Mr. CONN . That is correct . Mr ...
... experts ? Mr. CONN . Mr. Chairman , to be frank with you , I think we have done a clearer job of this thing than the Hoover Commission did . Mr. KARSTEN . You have 75 directors ; is that correct ? Mr. CONN . That is correct . Mr ...
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... experts representing every segment of this economy , and in that respect there will be a meeting in Chicago in July or August of 27 labor leaders , top national labor leaders , to go over the tentative work and the spadework of this ...
... experts representing every segment of this economy , and in that respect there will be a meeting in Chicago in July or August of 27 labor leaders , top national labor leaders , to go over the tentative work and the spadework of this ...
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... experts in that particular field . It would not be possible for any one man , no matter how competent , to efficiently exercise the power that this plan would give the Chairman . Such a Chairman would necessarily either dele- gate much ...
... experts in that particular field . It would not be possible for any one man , no matter how competent , to efficiently exercise the power that this plan would give the Chairman . Such a Chairman would necessarily either dele- gate much ...
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... experts , and must have special qualifications and the fitness and ability to systematize and carry out the provisions of the law and the safety rules and standards adopted in accordance with the law . The Sixty - first Congress which ...
... experts , and must have special qualifications and the fitness and ability to systematize and carry out the provisions of the law and the safety rules and standards adopted in accordance with the law . The Sixty - first Congress which ...
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... expert function . That ought to be done by experts . The CHAIRMAN . Then , in your opinion , none of these members should be accountable to anyone ? Mr. LYON . I would not say that . The CHAIRMAN . To whom would you make them ...
... expert function . That ought to be done by experts . The CHAIRMAN . Then , in your opinion , none of these members should be accountable to anyone ? Mr. LYON . I would not say that . The CHAIRMAN . To whom would you make them ...
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Page 99 - Roosevelt addressed a letter to the commissioner asking for his resignation, on the ground "that the aims and purposes of the Administration with respect to the work of the Commission can be carried out most effectively with personnel of my own selection," but disclaiming any reflection upon the commissioner personally or upon his services.
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Page 49 - The Commission is to be nonpartisan; and it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality. It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law.