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Where's the Goat? In Washington, people got little aid from their representatives. Convinced that gas rationing was misunderstood and unpopular, Senators and Representatives got in tune, lashed out against it. But they had no single goat. Whom were they to blame? Price Boss Leon Henderson? Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes? Donald Nelson...
...hundred Congressmen met in caucus, demanded Congress be given full facts, battered away at Leon Henderson. Said Tennessee's Republican John Jennings Jr.: "... a smart aleck . . . dictator...
...assess civilian, military and foreign food needs and to control crop plantings to meet those requirements. Nelson cagily kept two checks & balances: as head of the vast production-supply agency, he will O.K. the committee's moves; food-rationing powers remain in the hands of OPA's Henderson...
...Leon Henderson last week asked for 90.000 new Federal employes (and $210,000,000) to enforce his price-control and rationing program, That is about 70% as many men as there are in all the State and local police and detective forces in the country; it is more than 20 times the peak staff (in bootleg years) of Federal prohibition agents; and it amounts to one employe for every 19 retail outlets in the U.S. But-as OPA was quick to point out -it is only one-third more than the 60,000 Britain has hired to price-control...
There was reason to worry: to the White House went many a New Deal Senator, to complain that Henderson refused to consider their patronage demands. The whole Senate stewed-90,000 jobs, and not a plum for them...