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Organization of the Executive Branch of the National Government of the United States. A Tabular View Showing Changes Made Between March 4 and November 1, 1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

L. F. Schmeckebier et al.
L. F. Schmeckebier et al.
Affiliation:
The Brookings Institution
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Exceptionally rapid and drastic changes in the functional and structural aspects of the executive branch of the national government of the United States since the advent of the Roosevelt administration tend to leave the observer in a condition of bewilderment, from which he may to some degree be rescued by the guide furnished below. The outline was prepared by the staff of the Institute for Government Research of the Brookings Institution of Washington, and covers all major units of the Executive Departments with the exception of those in the Department of Justice and in the Post Office Department and those supervising the military and naval activities in the War and Navy Departments. For the Department of Justice and the Post Office Department, the supervisory units headed by the assistant attorneys-general and the assistant postmasters-general are included in the terms “Legal Services” and “Postal Services.” For the War and Navy Departments, the designations “Military Services” and “Naval Services” include all of the units supervising these branches. The outline includes also the independent establishments, and in some cases subordinate units are listed. The emergency organizations listed include only units specifically authorized by law or established by the President under general authority vested in him. There are also boards, corporations, and committees which operate with or are advisory to many of the units listed, and in addition some duties have been delegated to existing agencies which have not created separate units for extra work.

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Public Administration
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American Political Science Review , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 1933 , pp. 942 - 956
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1933

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References

1 The reorganization of executive agencies effected by Executive Orders 6084 of March 27, 6145 of May 25, and 6166 of June 10 was authorized by section 16 of the act of March 3, 1933 (Public No. 428, 72nd Congress, 47 Stat. L., 1517), amending and reëacting sections 401 to 409 of the act of June 30, 1932 (Public No. 212, 72nd Congress, 47 Stat. L., 413).

The citations to the laws are to the separate prints of the acts and to the Statutes at Large. Separate prints of acts, referred to as “Public No.—,” are numbered consecutively through each Congress, and may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents at five cents each. When the outline herewith presented was sent to thn printer, the volumes of the Statutes at Large cited were not available, but citations given apply to the unbound volumes known as the “session laws,” the full title being Session Laws, Statutes … passed at the … session of the … Congress … Part I, Public Acts. The citations to Volume 47 apply to the public session laws for the second session of the 72nd Congress; those to Volume 48, to the public session laws for the first session of the 73rd Congress. Executive orders are published only in separate form, not being assembled in any official publication. The laws and executive orders are, however, printed in the Supplements to Mason's U. S. Code, annotated, published by the Citer-Digest Company, St. Paul, Minn., and in the Supplements to the U. S. Code, annotated, issued by the West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minn., and the Edward Thompson Company, Northport, N. Y.

2 Unless a special session is called, the second session of the 73rd Congress will begin on January 3, 1934.