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A | Adams, John, in favor of decentralization, 33; notes on Foreign Affairs Bill, 45-46; casts deciding vote, 47; dismisses Secretary of War Pickering, 53 | | Adams, John Quincy, 115 | | Adams, Samuel, in 2nd Continental Congress, 26; advocates decentralized government, 33 | | Admiralty, Board of, created in 1779,
inefficiency of, 29 | | Agricultural Credits Act, 1923, creating
government-owned credit banks, 136 | | Agricultural extension work, 216 | | Agriculture, Department of, expansion
of, 69; list of sub-bureaus, 70-71; increase of expenditure in last twenty
years, 75; cost of printing and binding
for, 89; public roads work, 221-222 | | Airplanes, vast expenditures for, without
results, 102 | | Alaska railroad, deficit one million per
year, 152 | | Amendatory Acts, 1817 and 1894, 180 | | American Association of Highway Officials, 223 | | American Merchant Marine, subsidiaries
to, 150 | | American people, change in thought of,
from abstract rights to concrete economics, 246; explanation of change, 247 | | Ames, Fisher, on Presidential power, 42, 43 | | Appropriation, power of, our "heel of Achilles," 20; attempt of framers to
regulate, abuse of, 21 | | Appropriations, official salaries, 65; increase in 130 years, 74; provisions for
by Continental Congress, 178; ordinance, 178-179 | | Army, sources of officers for, 103 | | Army and Navy Departments, original
separation a mistake, consolidation held
economy, 106; duplication of effort, 107; experience of Britain, 108; personnel, 111; appropriations, 112; one
Secretary suggested, plan for consolidation, 113. See also War Department,
Navy Department
Association of American Ship Owners,
gives outside aid to Shipping Board, 93 | | Attorney General, office created, 50 | | Auditor, for Post Office Department,
office created in 1836, 181 |
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B | Bache, Richard, son-in-law of Benjamin
Franklin, removed as Postmaster-General, 49 | | Baldwin, member of Congress, 182 | | Balzac, quotation from Bureaucracy by, 103; on government clerks, 117; on
office through influence, 119-120 | | Bank of North America, 130 | | Bankhead, Representative, introduces
roads bill, 222 | | Bankruptcy, departmental study of, 96 | | Beck, James M., author of The Vanishing Rights of the States, 192 | | Benton, Thomas H., 57 | | Board of War and Ordnance, first established, 27; new board, non-Congressional, 28 | | Boudinot, Elias, opposes interposition of
Senate in official matters, 44 | | Brandeis, Justice, 186 | | "Bribery of States," by subsidies, 223;
effects of, 226 | | Budget Bureau, 16, 180, 200, 230 | | Bureau system, beginning of, 10 | | Bureaucracy, historic background, 17;
menace of, due to failure of Constitutional Convention, 25; in Colonial
days, 26-36; essential within bounds, 64; Frankenstein of, 86; vast increase
in publicity potent factor in, 87; in
War and Navy departments, 100; machine gun instance, 101; efforts to in |
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