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Senator Carey contended that by awarding a contract to Be Vier & Co., Inc. of Manhattan to supply 200,000 kits at $1.40 each, Director Robert Fechner of the C. C. C. had wasted $216,000 of the Government's money, since the Army could have bought such kits for 32? each. As the week wore on and the investigation continued, the Army purchase price shifted uncertainly with the testimony of various witnesses. The net impression created was that a fast-thinking supersalesman had managed to outsmart the best minds in the War Department, the Budget Bureau...
...Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already issuing the C. C. C., Secretary Howe telephoned Director Fechner to make his own kit purchases without consulting the Army. He also signed letter -on Bureau of the Budget stationery- confirming the telephone conversation, recommending the "superior articles" but without mentioning Salesman Bevier or his product by name. President Roosevelt scribbled his approval at the bottom of the letter...
...last week C. C. C. enlistments totalled 62,500, of whom 50,000 either had not yet been mustered into service or were still being "conditioned" in Army camps. After five weeks only 12,500 men or 5% of the original planned total had reached the woods. Director Fechner announced plans to have his army recruited to full strength by July...
...first direct attack upon ranks of 13,000,000 unemployed. By authority of last fortnight's relief act, he issued an order creating the C. C. C. and providing it with $10,000,000 as a starter. Appointed Director of Emergency Conservation Work (salary: $10,200) was Robert Fechner, 57. of Massachusetts, a vice president of the International Association of Machinists. The selection of this tall, austere Laborite was a sop to the A. F. of L. and its opposition to $1-per-day relief work...
...National Forests where they will plant trees, clear brush, work roads, build fire controls and fight insect pests. The U. S. Forest Service has 1,000,000 man-months of work waiting to be done by the C. C. C. when recruited to full strength (250,000). Explained Director Fechner...