Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important Men Around the President are Harold Smith and Wayne Coy. The two men, little known to the U.S. because newsmen respect their "passion for anonymity," serve the President directly as general managers...
...Wayne Coy, now Smith's assistant, had served for a year as liaison man for the mysterious, jack-of-all-trades Office of Emergency Management. He was the man who untangled Lend-Lease to Russia when the knots were tight, who helped steer the property-requisitioning bill through Congress, helped bring C.I.O. and A.F. of L. together when John L. Lewis' "peace offer" threatened civil war in labor...
...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...