BUDGET DIRECTOR DAWES OUT TO GET INFORMATION
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On June 29, 1921, Charles G. Dawes*, Director of the Budget, addressed 500 bureau chiefs here in the Nation's Capital as President Warren G. Harding and his cabinet officers sat on stage behind him.
In an hour-long address, Director Dawes invited the co-operation and suggestions of the bureau chiefs as he was "out to get information."
The Director also said that "certain cabinet members were delinquent in aiding in the work of the new budget" and that the budget bureau must be "impartial, impersonal and non-political."
At the end of his speech, Mr. Dawes received "tremendous applause."
*Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) was born in Marietta, Ohio, Brigadier General in AEF 1917-1919, educated at Marietta College & University of Cincinnati (LLB). CGD was Comptroller of the Currency 1898-1901, Director of the Budget 1921-1922, Ambassador to Great Britain (1929-1931), VPOTUS 1925-1929.
SOURCE
"Harding Hears Dawes Chide Budget Forces," The New York Tribune, June 30, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
