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Development of National Administration in the United States, 1932–35

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Roger V. Shumate
Roger V. Shumate
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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Growth of Administrative Services. Any one returning to Washington after an absence of several years must be struck at once by the physical changes which have taken place in the political nerve center of the nation. These changes are largely the result of the erection of new government buildings and the clearing away of old structures to make way for others yet to come. In May, 1932, the Washington telephone directory listed 663 office telephones under the heading “United States Government.” In June, 1935, it listed 892, or a gain of nearly 35 per cent for the three-year period. This expansion of physical equipment may be said to symbolize the growth of the administrative organization of the national government. One sees on every hand new departmental edifices, and whole buildings now occupied by bureaus or commissions which were formerly tucked away in departmental buildings, or by new independent agencies which were non-existent until a year or two ago.

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Public Administration
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American Political Science Review , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 1935 , pp. 842 - 853
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1935

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References

1 U. S. Civil Service Commission, 51st Annual Report.

2 U. S. Civil Service Commission, Monthly Summary, June, 1935.

3 Ibid.

4 United States News, Jan. 28, 1935.

5 R.R. Retirement Board v. Alton RR. Co., in U.S. Law Week, May, 7, 1935, p. 10Google Scholar.

6 See Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan, Advance Ops. U.S. Sup. Ct., October term 1934, No. 135, and Schechter v. U.S., U.S. Law Week, May 28, 1935, p. 14Google Scholar.

7 New Federal Organizations: An Outline of their Structure and Functions (1934), p. 2Google Scholar.

8 Emergency and Other New Government Agencies. (Mimeographed.)

9 Monthly Summary, June, 1935. (Mimeographed.)

10 Ibid.

11 Recently transferred to the Resettlement Administration.

12 Schmeckebier, op. cit.

13 United States News, April 8, 1935, p. 21Google Scholar.

14 There is, of course, a technical distinction between these terms, but it does not seem to have been followed very carefully in the naming of the several establishments.

15 Washington Post, July 4, 1935, p. 1Google Scholar.

16 Enumerated in the Congressional Directory for 1935.

17 U.S. Civil Service Commission, 51st Annual Report.

18 Ibid.

19 Monthly Summary of Employees for June, 1935.

20 Schmeckebier, op. cit.

21 There is some controversy over the propriety of using corporations for the performance of government services. For the affirmative, see Willoughby, W. F., Government Organization in War Time and After, pp. 354–357Google Scholar; for the negative, James M. Beck, Our Wonderland of Bureaucracy, Chap. X.