Word: prentiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clerk Irving Swanson began reading the message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the tough phrases (reputedly written by Fred Vinson Prentiss Brown and the Budget Bureau): "A bill to hamstring the Commodity Credit Corp. . . . would serve only to set the soldier, the worker and the unorganized consumer at war with the farmer . . . these unorganized millions must not become the forgotten men and women of our war economy...
...Davis were small acts in a big show. On OPA's request for $177,000,000, the House first cut the appropriation by 26%, then wrote in a series of straightjacket amendments. Most drastic: 1) No one without at least five years' experience in business, except Boss Prentiss Brown, shall be employed in OPA policy-making jobs; 2) no OPA funds may be used to pay any employe having anything to do with administration of subsidies...
...Others who take their exercise on horseback are Secretary of the Treasury Henry L. Morgenthau and Justice Robert H. Jackson. But the rest-men like War Mobilization Chief James F. Byrnes, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown and WPBoss Donald Nelson-take the easiest way. Like top-flight Army & Navy men, they have rediscovered walking...
...Building raged a pitched battle. OPA's "slide-rule boys," the Leon Henderson carryovers headed by gangling "5-ft.-20-in." Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith, grappled with the new "let's-be-reasonable boys," headed by stocky Lou Russel Maxon, the Detroit advertising wizard whom Prentiss Brown hired to humanize...
...schools fought over grade labeling, over dollars-&-cents ceilings, over how to make OPA orders understandable, over how to work subsidy payments, over making Lou Maxon "general manager" of OPA. Prentiss Brown had not been acting like a strong administrator. Now he told reporters that OPA was not "coming apart at the seams," then admitted he would have to decide between Galbraith and Maxon within the month. This week Galbraith resigned. This might end the internal confusion. It could not stem the outside pressures...