Word: otc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration was leady to okay a blanket 10% raise in rents. An order to that effect had, in fact, been drawn by the Office of Temporary Controls. But the question promptly arose: Why should Harry Truman be saddled with this political liability? He wasn't. He made OTC Director Philip B. Fleming the goat, announced that he never had been in favor of a rent increase, and said the whole matter was up to Congress anyway-which it unquestionably...