The Budget and Responsible Government: A Description and Interpretation of the Struggle for Responsible Government in the United States, with Special Reference to Recent Changes in State Constitutions and Statute Laws Providing for Administrative Reorganization and Budget ReformMacmillan, 1920 - Počet stran: 406 |
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... staff of the comptroller and auditor general being available to help the committee to a com- plete understanding of the facts . He also insisted that when the budget and the accounts of the administration were presented , each member of ...
... staff of the comptroller and auditor general being available to help the committee to a com- plete understanding of the facts . He also insisted that when the budget and the accounts of the administration were presented , each member of ...
Strana 79
... staff . These happenings in sequence as news items brought the subject repeatedly to public notice . A meet- ing at the White House was called in September and a preliminary inquiry was begun , and again the idea had news value . The ...
... staff . These happenings in sequence as news items brought the subject repeatedly to public notice . A meet- ing at the White House was called in September and a preliminary inquiry was begun , and again the idea had news value . The ...
Strana 81
... Staff Inquiry In the preliminary inquiry one of the first steps taken had been to ask the several departmental committees co- operating with the President to reanalyze the estimates in such manner as to show the different kinds of ...
... Staff Inquiry In the preliminary inquiry one of the first steps taken had been to ask the several departmental committees co- operating with the President to reanalyze the estimates in such manner as to show the different kinds of ...
Strana 87
... staff inquiry ; but the constructive recom- mendations of the President which required congressional coöperation were not given respectful hearing by the con- trolling majority of the legislative branch of the National Government ...
... staff inquiry ; but the constructive recom- mendations of the President which required congressional coöperation were not given respectful hearing by the con- trolling majority of the legislative branch of the National Government ...
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... staff inquiries and coöperated with officers in obtaining intelligent consideration for questions of municipal and state administration . These latter be- gan their work during the Roosevelt administration . The interest manifested at ...
... staff inquiries and coöperated with officers in obtaining intelligent consideration for questions of municipal and state administration . These latter be- gan their work during the Roosevelt administration . The interest manifested at ...
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Strana 43 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...
Strana 80 - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually.
Strana 80 - 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...
Strana 170 - The commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity.
Strana 146 - Lieutenant-Governor shall be elected at the same time and for the same term as the Governor, and his qualifications and the manner and ascertainment of his election, in all respects, shall be the same.
Strana 44 - ... me for the past, and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all. Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. And may ' that Infinite Power which rules the destinies...
Strana 8 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Strana 47 - Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government: to throw the light of publicity on its acts: to compel a full exposition and justification of all of them which any one considers questionable; to censure them if found condemnable...
Strana 224 - Treasurer's notes, or for the payment of interest arising thereon) but by warrant under the hand of the Governor for the time being...
Strana 32 - From the days of Fenton and Conkling and Arthur and Cornell and Platt, from the days of David B. Hill, down to the present time, ths government of the state has presented two different lines of activity, one of the constitutional and statutory officers of the state and the other of the party leaders. They call them party bosses. They call the system — I...