Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palmer, former Georgia real-estate man and Atlanta Housing Authority chairman, was appointed Defense Housing Coordinator by President Roosevelt early this year (TIME, Jan. 20). He determines housing needs in defense areas, then certifies the need to the President. F.D.R. stamps his O.K. on Palmer's findings, sends them to Carmody, in charge of actual construction. Carmody, in turn, assigns each job to one of nine semi-independent agencies...
This nine-way confusion was worse confounded when all nine agencies turned up in OPM's priorities division, each demanding copper, zinc, iron and steel. Certifier Palmer and Allocator Carmody also yelled contradictory advice in OPM's ear. Month ago, Palmer once more got the Presidential nod, was given certifying power over all defense housing priorities. Carmody, who sees no need for Palmer's job, would gladly take it over. Last July he told a House committee that the Coordinator's title was spelled "d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r." Last week he said...
There was the Fore River case. This spring, he said, Palmer notified him that 1,050 housing units were needed immediately in the Boston area for workers in Bethlehem's Quincy shipyards. With no time to build, FWA had to purchase from USHA for $4,856,203 an 873-unit slum clearance project 8.7 miles from the shipyards. Carmody told Palmer at the time it was a "preposterous" idea. Result up to Aug. 26: 400 units were occupied, only 225 by shipyard workers...
...Palmer's "very great insistence, insistence even to the point of irritation," Carmody completed a 750-unit dormitory for single men in San Diego. By Sept. 19 only 44 units housed occupants while an FWA survey same day revealed 1,000 rooms for single men available in that city...
...granted the A.F. of L. building trades unions a closed shop. Currier has a contract with the C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor Departments for advice. When Feudist Palmer takes the stand later this week, it will probably be Carmody's turn to blush. One man who will neither take the stand nor blush: F.D.R., whose failure to delegate complete responsibility to any one man is responsible for this and many another defense mess...