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...meantime two new faces have risen to power in Washington: Budget Director Harold Dewey Smith, and Wayne Coy, an "anonymous" Presidential assistant, now executive secretary of the Office for Emergency Management...
...Coy, 37, a young Indianan who worked under Harry Hopkins as a State WPAdministrator, was a longtime protege of Indianan Paul McNutt, outgrew McNutt to become increasingly important to the President as a drafter of domestic and defense programs. He is spectacled, sallow, and extremely fast of mind...
agayin and agayin and agayin. The Face Is Familiar is the definitive omnibus of Nash's best work. In that part of it which isn't coy or silly the book pioneers a yawping American humor homely enough to make the Statue of Liberty grin on her pedestal...
...President left Washington to fish off Florida, he called Coy to the White House, with ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Budget Bureau Director Harold D. Smith, and ever-present Adviser Hopkins, outlined Coy's new job: to create a Division of Home Defense, coordinating services of volunteer groups all over...
...President explained that he wanted a framework drafted. He intended to set up the new division by executive order, would finance it with his blanket defense funds, hoped it would not cost much. The President then sent to the Senate a nomination of Coy as director of "a board of investigation and research" authorized by the 1940 Transportation Act. But Washington wiseacres expect the rising young New Dealer to spend his time on much more pressing things than researching "the relative economy and fitness of carriers by railroad, motor carriers, and water carriers for transportation service...