A selection of letters, telegrams, memoranda, forms, and documents focusing on the theme of "scientific" economy in government. President Coolidge, Treasury Secretary Mellon, and Director of the Budget Bureau General Lord are the principal figures. Memoranda and sample "standard forms" from the Interdepartmental Board on Simplified Office Procedure, the Division of Simplified Practice, the Bureau of Standards, and the Bureau of Efficiency document the elimination of waste and the institution of the now commonplace standard form for virtually everything undertaken or proposed for consideration in government. Many items relate to the annual meetings of the Business Organization of the Government, operated by the Bureau of the Budget, among them a typescript version of President Coolidge's address before the eighth regular meeting of that gathering on January 26, 1925. The Fifth Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to the President of the United States, July 1, 1926, contains a budget narrative for 1926, projections of the budgets for 1927 and 1928, and a summary of the January and June 1926 meetings of the Business Organization of the Government.
Selections reproduced as facsimile page images: 164 of 900 pages.
Selected Document List | Page Images
| January 23, 1928 | Memorandum from Edward T. Clark to H.M. Lord |
| March 7, 1928 | Letter from H.M. Lord |
| March 2, 1928 | Form |
| March 2, 1928 | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Heads of Departments |
| March 2, 1928 | Form |
| March 2, 1928 | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Heads of Departments |
| January 30, 1928 | Letter from Everett Sanders to Herbert M. Lord |
| no date | Index Card |
| January 25, 1928 | Letter from Everett Sanders to H.M. Lord |
| April 30, 1928 | Index Card |
| December 10, 1927 | Index Card |
| December 10, 1927 | Index Card |
| December 1927 | Federal Publication from Everett Sanders to U.S. Congress |
| December 2, 1927 | Memorandum from Ogden L. Mills to Andrew Mellon |
| December 1, 1927 | Index Card |
| November 30, 1927 | Index Card |
| January 28, 1928 | Index Card |
| November 21, 1928 | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Calvin Coolidge |
| February 13, 1929 | Index Card |
| February 6, 1929 | Index Card |
| no date | Index Card |
| January 14, 1929 | Letter from Noah P. Webster to H.M. Lord |
| January 11, 1929 | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Heads of Departments |
| January 9, 1929 | Index Card |
| December 19, 1928 | Index Card |
| no date | Card |
| December 5, 1928 | Letter from Everett Sanders to H.M. Lord |
| March 8, 1928 | Letter to H.M. Lord |
| no date | Typescript |
| November 17, 1928 | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Calvin Coolidge |
| November 13, 1928 | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Heads of Departments |
| October 16, 1928 | Letter from Calvin Coolidge to Herber M. Lord |
| no date | Notes |
| August 3, 1928 | Telegram from Everett Sanders to M.C. Latta |
| March 24, 1925 | Index Card |
| November 22, 1928 | Letter from Andrew Mellon to Calcin Coolidge |
| May 21, 1927 | Letter from H.M. Lord |
| November 30, 1927 | Index Card |
| March 13, 1926 | Memorandum from Frank L. Wells to Heads of Departments |
| June 5, 1926 | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Heads of Departments |
| June 6, 1926 | Letter from Noah P. Webster to H.M. Lord |
| August 6, 1926 | Memorandum from H.C. Smither to Heads of Departmens |
| December 10, 1926 | Letter from Stewart Appleby to Everett Sanders |
| no date | Federal Publication |
| March 30, 1927 | Index Card |
| April 4, 1925 | Index Card |
| November 29, 1927 | Report |
| August 24, 1927 | Index Card |
| August 13, 1927 | Index Card |
| 1926 | Federal Publication |
| May 25, 1927 | Letter from Everett Sanders to H.M. Lord |
| August 5, 1927 | Telegram from Rudolph Forster to Secretary |
| no date | Report to Calvin Coolidge |
| December 11, 1926 | Letter from Everett Sanders to Stewart Appleby |
| November 27, 1923 | Typescript |
| January 26, 1925 | Speech from Calvin Coolidge |
| January 13, 1925 | Memorandum from Frank L. Wells to Heads of Departments |
| December 1, 1924 | Index Card |
| November 25, 1924 | Index Card |
| no date | Report |
| May 29, 1924 | Letter from H.M. Lord to Calvin Coolidge |
| May 2, 1924 | Index Card |
| January 19, 1926 | Index Card |
| December 20, 1923 | Letter from Henry Bruere to Calvin Coolidge |
| no date | Memorandum from H.M. Lord to Calvin Coolidge |
| November 27, 1923 | Typescript |
| no date | Typescript |
| October 24, 1923 | Letter from illegible to Calvin Coolidge |
| October 24, 1923 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to H.M. Lord |
| October 15, 1923 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to Julius H. Barnes |
| October 11, 1923 | Letter from Julius H. Barnes to Calvin Coolidge |
| December 22, 1923 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to Henry Bruere |