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, 1950U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - 107 pages |
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The Congress deliberately established the Bureau of Locomotive Inspection in a quasi - independent status with the director and the assistant directors free with their special qualifications to direct activities to the end that the ...
The Congress deliberately established the Bureau of Locomotive Inspection in a quasi - independent status with the director and the assistant directors free with their special qualifications to direct activities to the end that the ...
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But it deliberately was set up to give this Bureau of Locomotive Inspection an independent status , quasi independent . It is in the Commission for housekeeping purposes , we may say . But the experts who run that Bureau , as I pointed ...
But it deliberately was set up to give this Bureau of Locomotive Inspection an independent status , quasi independent . It is in the Commission for housekeeping purposes , we may say . But the experts who run that Bureau , as I pointed ...
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The head of the Wage and Hour Division in the Labor Department was set up by an independent act of Congress and as being responsible directly to Congress and one of the other plans that was brought up here - I believe it was plan No.
The head of the Wage and Hour Division in the Labor Department was set up by an independent act of Congress and as being responsible directly to Congress and one of the other plans that was brought up here - I believe it was plan No.
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With reference to these bombs we have been ex- periencing on air traffic of late , do you have any independent agency that would go in there and determine safety rules for take - off and that sort of thing ? Mr. LYON .
With reference to these bombs we have been ex- periencing on air traffic of late , do you have any independent agency that would go in there and determine safety rules for take - off and that sort of thing ? Mr. LYON .
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Now this Bureau is not a part of the Commission ; it enjoys a semi- independent status created by the Congress itself with three men ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to run it . The Commission has no policy about ...
Now this Bureau is not a part of the Commission ; it enjoys a semi- independent status created by the Congress itself with three men ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to run it . The Commission has no policy about ...
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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 authority of Congress, in creating quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial agencies, to require them to act in discharge of their duties independently of executive control, cannot well be doubted; and that authority includes, as an appropriate incident, power to fix the period during which they shall continue, and to forbid their removal except for cause in the meantime.
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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.