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The '''Overman Act''' or '''Departmental Reorganization Act''' was legislation sponsored by Senator Lee Slater Overman which broadly expanded the powers of the president to reorganize departments during [[World War I]].
==External Links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=PGMPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA174 War Powers of the Executive in the United States]
* [https://archive.org/details/GovernmentOrganizationInWarTimeAndAfter Government Organization In War Time And After - A Survey of the Federal Civil Agencies Created for the Prosecution of the War], by William Franklin Willoughby - Director of the Institute for Government Research
[[Category: World War I]]