However, I have set up a series of conferences and hope to have some knowledge on it as soon as I am in a position to act officially. The CHAIRMAN. I think it is a matter that deserves very serious attention of the policy down at the Department. Mr. ROTHSCHILD. İ agree with you, sir. The CHAIRMAN. And, of course, the vast expenditure of money involved in the new system, whatever it is. Are there any other questions of Mr. Rothschild? The committee has no further questions. We thank you, Mr. Rothschild. Mr. ROTHSCHILD. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. We appreciate your coming up. Are there any other witnesses to be heard on this nomination? (No response.) The CHAIRMAN. I guess not. (The biographical sketch referred to is as follows:) BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY ON LOUIS S. ROTHSCHILD Present position: Chairman, Federal Maritime Board, and Administrator, Maritime Administration, United States Department of Commerce. Sworn in July 2, 1953, for term ending June 30, 1956. Previous Government position: Chairman of the Board, Inland Waterways Corporation (sworn in March 25, 1953). Born: Leavenworth, Kans., March 29, 1900, son of Louis P. Rothschild. Education: Bachelor of philosophy, Yale University, 1920. Business: President and treasurer of Rothschild & Sons, Inc., a nearly centuryold retail business, originally started in 1855 by Phillip Rothschild, grandfather of Louis S. Rothschild. Now operating a group of stores in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Director and member of the finance committee of Central Surety & Insurance Corp. Public service: Member, City Planning Commission of Kansas City, Mo., since 1937; chairman since 1946; member, Jackson County Planning Commission since 1946; director, American Society of Planning Officials; vice president and director, Menorah Medical Center; vice chairman and director, Midwest Research Institute; president and director, Community Studies, Inc.; director, American Royal Association; past president, Merchants Association; past vice president, Chamber of Commerce. Military service: United States Navy, World War I. NOMINATION OF GEORGE T. MOORE, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1955 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10:18 a. m., in room G-16, United States Capitol, Senator Warren G. Magnuson (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Magnuson, Monroney, Smathers, Ervin, Bible, Thurmond, Bricker, Schoeppel, Potter, and Duff. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The first order of business is the nomination of George Moore to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce. If you will come forward, Mr. Moore, we will be glad to hear from you. We have a biographical sketch of Mr. Moore which will be made a part of the record at this point. (The document referred to above is as follows:) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GEORGE THOMAS MOORE Born: Yakima, Wash., November 13, 1898, son of Thomas William Moore and Julia Smith Moore. Married Harriet Bartlett, June 28, 1924. Children: James Bartlett Moore and Mrs. Susan Moore Chamberlain. Education: Stanford University, 1916-18; University of California, 1919-21 bachelor of arts). Military service: Enlisted United States Army, discharged second lieutenant, 1918. Experience: Salesman, 1921-27; Montgomery Ward & Co., 1927 through 1952 (1942-52, retail operating manager in charge of administration activities including personnel, compensation, organization, procedures, budgets, and operations for approximately 600 stores); consultant, Department of the Army, July 1953 to December 1953; consultant, Department of Commerce, December 1953 to date Acting Director, Office of Administrative Operations, reporting directly to Assistant Secretary of Commerce and working with the bureaus in administrative areas). Clubs: Skokie Country Club, Skokie, Ill.; the Executives' Club of Chicago; formerly member of Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry; Capitol Hill Club, Washington, D. C. Home: 200 Glencoe Road, Glencoe, Ill. Washington address: 3700 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington 16, D. C. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Moore, we will be glad to hear from you. STATEMENT OF GEORGE THOMAS MOORE Mr. MOORE. My name is George Thomas Moore. I was born November 13, 1898, in Yakima, Wash. In 1900 my family moved to Los Angeles, then to Alhambra-a suburb of Los Angeles-where we lived until 1916, in which year we moved to Berkeley, Calif., where I continued to live until 1937, then moving to Glencoe, Ill. I received my elementary education at the Hoover Street School in Los Angeles and the Ramona Park Public School in Alhambra, and attended the Alhambra High School in Alhambra, Calif., graduating in June 1916. I entered Leland Stanford, Junior, University as a prelegal student in the fall of 1916 and remained there until the early spring of 1918, when I enlisted in the United States Army. I was discharged the latter part of December 1918 as a second lieute nant. After my discharge from the Army, I decided to continue my college work in the school of business administration and, inasmuch as Stanford did not have that department at that time, I transferred to the University of California, graduating with an A. B. in 1921. From 1921 to 1927, I found employment as a salesman with Eaton, Crane & Pike-office in San Francisco--and with Wilson-Jones Loose Leaf Co.-factory in Chicago-traveling the territory Denver west. It was while traveling as a salesman that I first met my wife-to-be and decided that I would get off the road. I accepted a position as manager of the property department of the Mason McDuffie Co. at Berkeley, Calif., where I gained experience in property management. In In 1927 I became associated with Montgomery Ward & Co., starting as a student of the mail-order organization. At that time Ward's were opening retail stores and I was assigned to that branch of the business, where I successively acted as store manager, district manager, and assistant regional manager, in the Pacific coast region. 1937 I was transferred to the Chicago regional office as assistant regional manager of the Chicago region. In 1940 I was appointed to the home office in charge of mail order and retail administrative activities; then when the mail order and retail activities were separated, I was made retail operating manager, a position which I occupied from 1942 until I resigned in the late fall of 1952. In the position of retail operating manager I had the responsibility for the operations of some 600 stores throughout the United States. These included inventory replenishment, warehousing, personnel administration, compensation, procedures, budgets, and all operating details, such as communications, trucking and delivery, customer service, and associated elements of store operation. On July 15, 1953, I accepted an appointment as consultant to the Honorable John Slezak, Assistant Secretary of the Army, in the area of supply. In December 1953 I transferred to the Department of Commerce to complete a personnel inventory. In March 1954 I was requested to serve as consultant in the area of Administrative Operations due to the illness of the then Director of the Office ard, upon his retirement on June 30, 1954, was made Acting Director of the Office of Administrative Operations where it was possible to become rather intimately associated with the administrative activities of the Department of Commerce, working under the direction of the Honorable James C. Worthy, who resigned from his position as Assistant Secretary of Commerce as of February 1, 1955, and whose place I have been nominated to take. This background, I feel, helps qualify me for the appointment as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration. My wife is the former Harriet Bartlett, of St. Louis, Mo., and Los Angeles, Calif., whom I married in June 1924. We have a son, James B. Moore, 29, unmarried, a chemical engineer, residing in our home in Glencoe, Ill., and a daughter, Susan, 27, married to Charles W. Chamberlain, Jr., residing in Portland, Maine. Mrs. Moore and I are now residing in Washington, but our permanent residence is Glencoe, Ill. I will be glad to answer any questions in elaboration of the foregoing condensed statement of my background. I appreciate this opportunity to appear before you. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Moore, the only thing that I can see that is wrong with your qualifications is that you moved out of a good State. Mr. MOORE. Very early. Senator BRICKER. Before the age of discretion. Mr. MOORE. Before the age of discretion. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any questions by the members of the committee? Senator MONRONEY. In this position will you have any regulation over civil aeronautics? Mr. MOORE. Only administratively. Senator MONRONEY. The problem of subsidy for various branches of transportation will not come under your department? Mr. MOORE. No, sir. Senator MONRONEY. That is under the Under Secretary for Transportation? Mr. MOORE. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. What do you mean by "administratively"? Mr. MOORE. Organization. The CHAIRMAN. Of the CAB? Mr. MOORE. No, sir. The CHAIRMAN. That is independent? Mr. MOORE. That is independent; CAA I was thinking of. The CHAIRMAN. But you do have what is called an Under Secretary for Transportation? Mr. MOORE. True. The CHAIRMAN. And that is Mr. Murray? Mr. MOORE. Mr. Murray, who resigned on January 20. The CHAIRMAN. What is your relationship to Mr. Murray in the Department? Mr. MOORE. The Under Secretary for Administration simply handles the administrative work for the entire Department. Mr. Murray would, I should say, get his administrative work done by this office but we would not have anything to do with the policy sort of thing. The CHAIRMAN. You have more to do with personnel than anything else within the Department? Mr. MOORE. Yes, sir. Senator MONRONEY. Would the matter of the tower-control operation and the question of whether it should be shoved on to the municipalities or whether there should be continued administration of them by federally trained qualified personnel be under your department for administration? Mr. MOORE. No, sir. That decision would be made elsewhere. Senator MONRONEY. At various times in the past they have tried to take away Federal personnel in the control towers at airports. From an aviation standpoint I am anxious to see that we have qualified men operating those approaches, from the standpoint of aviation safety. in. Senator SMATHERS. You mean from the passenger standpoint? Senator MONRONEY. Yes; particularly on a soupy day when coming Senator THURMOND. Did I understand that your work would pertain to general administration? Mr. MOORE. Yes, sir. Senator THURMOND. Security, budget, publications, things of that nature? Mr. MOORE. Personnel and so forth. The CHAIRMAN. Do you have any opinion on the merit system of hiring employees? Mr. MOORE. I do not know whether I understood your question correctly. The CHAIRMAN. Insofar as you know, the merit system is adhered to in the hiring of employees? Mr. MOORE. Under civil service, absolutely. The CHAIRMAN. In your personnel work you feel strongly about adhering to that system? Mr. MOORE. Yes. Those that fall into the civil-service classification. The CHAIRMAN. How many employees do you have? The CHAIRMAN. Thirty-five thousand? Mr. MOORE. Yes. To that is added some part-time employees. There is another group of employees who are not paid and do extra work for us. Depending on what censuses are being taken, the Department sometimes goes as high as 70,000. The CHAIRMAN. That would include the present business census that is taking place? Mr. MOORE. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. You hire them part time? Mr. MOORE. Those are part-time. Senator POTTER. Mr. Worthy was with Sears, Roebuck? Mr. MOORE. Yes, sir. Senator POTTER. Before assuming this position? Mr. MOORE. Yes, sir. He is going back to Sears, Roebuck. Mr. MOORE. Maybe that is a place for people who get thrown out of Ward's. Senator SCHOEPPEL. I want to say frankly that you are succeeding a good man. Mr. MOORE. An excellent man. Senator SCHOEPPEL. Your work, your responsibility to a degree, I assume, actually takes you to every section of the United States by reason of your personnel and the administrative features of your responsible position. I take it that, following the custom in these respective States and areas in those agencies that are cooperating and |