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...Coy had also been-on his own hook and at risk of his job-the No. 1 drumbeater for the all-out war expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes. In the days when OPM's Bill Knudsen assured President Roosevelt that production was 100% good, and Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd shouted that it was 100% bad, Coy knew that Byrd was closer to the truth-and said so all the way to the top. For this he went deep into the doghouse for a while, but he finally won. OPM gave...
...Team. Working together now, Smith & Coy have enough odd jobs to keep them busy from 9 a.m. to midnight, six or seven days a week. Their offices are prissy chambers on the second floor of the old State Department rookery; each has high ceilings, gold-velvet draperies withering around the windows, a fireplace of sickly chocolate marble, festoons of exposed pipe and wiring. Among this lavender & old lace sit the two streamlined gogetters...
...basket on Smith's desk, on a typical day, may pop any number of neat typewritten notes signed F. D. R.-each meaning a new chore. For in wartime Washington, with its myriads of new officials, its changing pattern of authority, its good spots and bad, Smith & Coy are the doers on whom the President relies...
Indiana Boy. Albert Wayne Coy, 38, was born in Shelby County, Ind., soon dropped the Albert as excess baggage. After college he worked for the Franklin Evening Star, finally bought a scraggly country weekly...
...made friends with Governor Paul V. McNutt, who hired him as secretary, made him Indiana WPA administrator, took him along to the Philippines. When McNutt switched from High Commissioner of the Philippines to FSAdministrator, Coy went along as McNutt's assistant in Washington. There the beautiful friendship broke on the rocks of jealousy: McNutt tried to write the first blueprint for OCD; President Roosevelt, dissatisfied, turned the job over to Coy...