Word: fechner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours more. With pen instead of fishing rod in hand, he signed a proclamation urging citizens to contribute $3,000,000 for Red Cross flood relief. Around his desk assembled his Flood Emergency Committee: War Secretary Dern (rescues), Red Cross Admiral Gary T. Grayson (food, clothing, medicine), CCCommandant Fechner (rescues and patrol duty), WPAdministrator Hopkins (repair of dikes, sewers, water supplies), Treasury Secretary Morgenthau (finance). After three days Secretary Dern appeared with the announcement that the flood was receding. Next noon, with this act of God behind him, President Roosevelt was Southbound...
...maker of the world's most superior mouse trap never had a more worn path to his door than that which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Public Works Administrator Ickes, Works Progress Administrator Hopkins, Resettler Tugwell and CCChief Robert Fechner beat to the door of the Executive Office last week. Day after day they went, conferred, departed uttering only Delphic nothings to the Press...
...such thoughts coursed through Franklin Roosevelt's busy brain, they were secret. Only two concrete hints reached the Press last week. One came from CCC Director Fechner. He admitted that the Administration plans to cut the CCC enrollment from 460,000 to 300,000 to reduce the number of CCCamps from 2,248 to 1,456. The other hint came from President Roosevelt himself. A newshawk asked at a Press conference whether he planned to allocate $3,000,000 for work on the Florida Ship Canal. Funds for such large projects, said the President, would be included...
Senator Carey's best witness was Major General John Lesesne De Witt, in charge of the Quartermaster Corps. He said that the Be Vier product had been turned down by the Army, that he had cautioned Director Fechner against it. It seemed to him that what was good enough for soldiers was good enough for forestry workers on the dole. He variously estimated that the army could have bought the $1.40 Be Vier kit for 42?, 75?, at the most...
...colonels in the War Department. It then occurred to him, he said, that a President's Secretary would know "exactly what officials to get in contact with." He saw Mr. Howe at 3:30 the afternoon of May 15. Mr. Howe's letter did not reach Director Fechner until next day, but "before sundown" the contract, under which 110,000 $1.40 Be Vier kits have already been delivered, was signed and in his pocket. Up to "that time, he said, Mr. Fechner was a perfect stranger...