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...only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks of messengers from the halls. But Cordell Hull balked at repainting doors in pastel shades...
...short paragraphs in TIME (Oct. 30) on the British War Office action against long-winded and stilted writing are important. One of the great stumbling blocks in our society is the archaic, devious and unnatural way we use language in expressing our laws, our insurance policies, our leases, mortgages and government directives...
...made for men of bad will who would make themselves the law. Under it, a governor has so little power that he cannot appoint his own cabinet; he is subject to the will of boss-appointed "department heads." A fabulous bureaucracy has arisen: 135 separate state departments, and an archaic, top-heavy judicial setup of 17 different state court systems-many controlled by Hague. The new constitution would give the governor his own cabinet and more power, would cut the departments to 20 and the court system to six, would replace the bulky 16-man Court of Errors and Appeals...
...night & day. But the people's look at the war went farther, far beyond Normandy. For months the U.S., as a nation of tablecloth strategists, had been preoccupied with the coming of Dday. But as soon as it had happened, "Second Front" at once became as archaic a phrase as "defense bonds." For the invasion of France made not a Second but a Seventh Front...
...ICCommissioner he gained the gratitude of the railroads by helping them streamline the archaic regulations governing freight routings. Last month, aware of the increasing threat of the manpower shortage to the railroads, he recommended that all railroad employes now in the Army but not overseas be demobilized and returned to their jobs...