New Farm Credit Administration Created by Executive Order
The President issues an executive order creating the Farm Credit Administration to consolidate seven agencies and replace the Farm Board and related bodies. Henry Morgenthau Jr. to head as governor with Paul Bestor as commissioner. The move aims to unify loan policies, place employees under civil service, and liquidate remaining Farm Board holdings of wheat and cotton.
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Farm Credit Administration
Federal Farm Board
Federal Farm Loan Board
Farm Credit
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Paul Bestor
Morgenthau
Department of Agriculture
Farm Board
Morgenthaus
New Credit Administration
Congress
Roosevelt
Roosevelt aims to balance budget while expanding bonds
The column reflects on President Roosevelt’s budget plan and use of bond issues for relief and public works, arguing for and against including bond-funded expenditures in the budget. It notes European war scares, Hitler’s rise, and Mussolini’s role, with political risk to Roosevelt amid Republican-Democrat dynamics. It mentions Prince Damrong Devakul and a White House Correspondents’ dinner anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Roosevelt
Austen Chamberlain
Britain
MacDonald
Ronald Lindsay
Cordell Hull
White House
M. Jacques Stern
Chamber of Deputies
M. Stern
France
Hull
Senate
Agriculture Wallace
House
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Green
American Federation of Labor
Western
Nowanan
Union
Hoover
Cleveland
Europe
Hitler
Mussolini
Italy
Duce
Balkans
Poland
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Romania
England
Germany
Wilson
The Postal Service Structure and Its Four Assistants
A 1998 overview explains the postal service as a vast operation with the Postmaster General and four assistants guiding service policy and logistics. It details the roles of the first assistant in service maintenance, the second in railway and international mail, the third in finances, and the fourth in engineering and equipment.
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Postal Service
United States
Postal Savings Banks
Post Office Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Kansas City
Western Newspaper Union
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British
Ramsay MacDonald
Wagner
New York
Costigan
Colorado
la Follette
Wisconsin
Senator la Follette
National Socialist Party
Nazi
Lewis W. Douglas
Exican
Josephus Daniels
Mexico City
Daniels
Azueta
Uribe
Vera Cruz
Mr. Daniels
Navy
Ype
Army and Navy
Department of Labor
Sir Ronald Lindsay
William Bruckart
London
Rome
Paris
Geneva
Daladier
Rhineland
Marne
Prince Damras Damrong Devakul
Siam
Prince Damrong
Prince Damrong Devakul
Prince
Devakul
Department of State
Postal Savings System
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