Word: program
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Resignations. Alive to the need for reorganizing the Government, President Hoover touched the centre of resistance to this long-delayed program when he called last week for the resignations of all executive officeholders from sub-Cabinet members down to the unchanging, merit-system Civil Service. Obscure bureau chiefs, chief clerks, directors of their deputies, holders of jobs which are virtually permanent so long as their party stays in power, these underlings have exercised great influence over Cabinet officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President...
...wildest predictions about the Hoover Cabinet never placed in the Secretaryship of Commerce a man of rebellious originality. Everybody knew that to that office would go some particular Hoover choice (the last to be made as it turned out) who would execute the Hoover program as already established...
With gleeful gruffness, Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, intoned the citation: "For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service . . . responsible for the organization, development and completion of a military program which brought success to the American arms . . . services of inestimable value to the country...
...insinuate that the title-holders have boasted of their victory is far from our purpose. Harvard feels that the contest provides an interesting comparison of educational methods and results. Yale does not feel that any definite results can be determined. The omission of the contest from this year's program of news items for the profit of the press should turn out to be a wise move. --Yale News...
...program is announced as follows: Sonata Written in 1774 Mozart Woodland Sketches McDowell (a) To a Wild Rose (b) From Uncle Remus (c) From an Indian Lodge The Music Box Ludow Intermission Rumanian Folk-Dances Bela-Bartok Marche des Pettits Soldats de Plomb Pierne Fantasie from the Opera "Johnny Spielt Auf" Kvenek