Public administration as an activity was booming throughout the 1920s. The federal government’s response to the Great Depression of the 1930s would make public administration all the more pervasive as part of American life.36 Public administration theorists, such as Dwight Waldo,37 Vincent Ostrom,38 Nicholas Henry,39 and Howard McCurdy,40 have described the pattern of development within public administration within public administration after the First World War as a period of orthodoxy. The tenets of this orthodox ideology held that “true democracy and true efficiency are synonymous, or at least reconcilable,”41 that the work of government could be neatly divided into decision making and execution, and that administration was a science with discoverable principles