The Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the National Government, Issue 9 |
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activities administrative branch Administrative Branch-Continued affairs agencies Alaska Assistant Secretary Bureau of Foreign Bureau of Internal Bureau of Navigation character charge Chief Clerk civil Coast Guard Commission Comptroller Congress consular officers creation Customs Department of Commerce Department of Public departmental desirable diplomatic direction Disbursing Clerk District of Columbia Domestic Commerce duties Education and Science engineering Executive Departments-Continued existing fact Federal Reserve Board field Foreign and Domestic foreign trade Functional Services important independent establishments inspection Institutional Services interests Interior Department Interstate Commerce Commission jurisdiction Labor Lighthouses maintaining matters ment military national bank National Government naval Navy Department operation OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION performance personnel present President problem proposed Department Public Buildings Public Domain purely administrative purpose recommended regarding relations reorganization respect responsibility result Revenue Cutter Service secured stations Statistics Steamboat Inspection Service supervision tion transferred transportation Treasury Department unifunctional United vessels War Department
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Page 219 - It shall be the duty of such commission to advise upon the location of statues, fountains, and monuments in the public squares, streets, and parks in the District of Columbia, and upon the selection of models for statues, fountains, and monuments erected under the authority of the United States and upon the selection of artists for the execution of the same.
Page 4 - Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt been made to study all of these activities and agencies with a view to the assignment of each activity to the agency best fitted for its performance, to the avoidance of duplication of plant and work, to the integration of all administrative agencies of the government, so far as may be practicable, into a unified organization for the most effective and economical dispatch...
Page 152 - Department, for the improvement of the means for navigating safely the vessels of the Navy and of the mercantile marine, by providing, under...
Page 261 - Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining preparation, treatment, and use; and to disseminate information concerning these subjects in such manner as will best carry out the purposes of this act SEC.
Page 55 - Commission, consisting of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and two members of the Senate, to be selected by the President of the Senate, and two members of the House of Representatives, to be selected by the Speaker...
Page 81 - ... the Coast Guard, which shall constitute a part of the military forces of the United States and which shall operate under the Treasury Department in time of peace and operate as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, in time of war or when the President shall so direct.
Page 261 - Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Page 129 - ... transportation facilities") acquired by the United States in pursuance of the fourth paragraph of section 6 of the Federal control act (except the transportation facilities constituting parts of railroads or transportation systems over which Federal control was assumed) are transferred to the Secretary of War, who shall operate or cause to be operated such transportation facilities so that the lines of inland water transportation established by or through the President during Federal control...
Page 174 - Secretary, to foster, promote, and develop the various manufacturing industries of the United States, and markets for the same at home and abroad, domestic and foreign, by gathering, compiling, publishing, and supplying all available and useful information concerning such industries and such markets, and by such other methods and means as may be prescribed by the Secretary or provided by law.
Page 130 - Act or by subsequent legislation, and to the provisions of the "Shipping Act, 1916," as now or hereafter amended, in the same manner and to the same extent as if such transportation facilities were privately owned and operated; and all such vessels while operated and employed s-'olely as merchant vessels shall be subject TO all other laws.