Word: eca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, ECA's boss Paul Hoffman continued energetically taking his first quick EGA steps. He made an official appointment. He named Dr. Dennis A. FitzGerald, gaunt, able director of the Department of Agriculture's Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, as chief of ECA's food division. "He's probably the greatest authority on food procurement and distribution in the world," Hoffman said. FitzGerald came to Washington 13 years ago from Iowa State College...
Hoffman had another appointment just about ready to announce. He had picked Clinton S. Golden, onetime machinist, vice president of Phil Murray's United Steelworkers, writer and lecturer on labor problems and labor adviser to the U.S. mission to Greece, to be ECA's adviser on labor affairs. The two most important appointments-deputy administrator and ECA's ambassador-at-large were still to be made...
This week, Hoffman would have to pause long enough to face Congressman John Taber's Appropriations Committee and justify the expenditure of $4.2 billion of ECA's $5.3 billion authorization. EGA had $1 billion as a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and $55 million for stopgap aid already tucked away. But the big balance would have to be approved by Congress again. That might slow down Hoffman's steps. Cautious, tight-fisted John Taber said that he wanted to go over all the European nations' requests carefully, the hearings might take weeks...
Thursday morning at 7, he breakfasted with Moore and Wayne Taylor. Calvin Hoover arrived. A blonde secretary arrived. ECA began to hum. Hoffman rushed off to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, met Moore and the others later in the old State Department building, where they took possession of four high-ceilinged rooms which had once been the suite of General John Pershing...
Last week, to help them get the ingredient of truth, a topflight German newsman, Erik Reger, was in the U.S. to report on ECA and the U.N. A group of U.S. newspapers and the Columbia network had sponsored Reger's trip, after hearing of the good job he did in covering the last London conference...