Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just a man of wrath," his friend the late William Allen White once called him. "The old Kansas fever - diagnosed modernly as ants in your pants...
When Harry Truman nominated his friend and adviser, George Allen, to a directorship of the giant Reconstruction Finance Corp. last January, a suspicious Senate Committee prepared to give roly-poly George the piercing eye. But Washington-wise Jester Allen gagged away their suspicions that he was too light for the job. Later, when he was confirmed, he dropped 13 of his 22 business directorships, to lay the Senators' worst fears. When he set to work, it was with the understanding between him and Harry Truman that he would stay on the job twelve months...
Last week, just 21 days before his first year was up, Director Allen announced he was quitting RFC to resume some directorships and his role as unofficial ambassador for the President. Despite his airy ways, George Allen had proved a conservative lender, an apparently able dealer, and the real administrator of R.F.C.* Under his administration...
...Come out flatly against overspending for veterans' emergency housing. (Allen's refusal to lend $32 million to the fledgling Lustron Corp. to build metal prefabricated houses precipitated the Administration battle that ended with the ousting of Housing Director Wilson Wyatt...
With a no-defeat record behind him, Allen was understandably anxious to duck out before something might come along to spoil it. But for all his hurry, he left behind at least one work for the new Republican Congress to remember him by-a bill to simplify and reorganize the multi-unit RFC, strip it of its wartime and emergency powers, and provide for its eventual liquidation...