Word: prentiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury indicted Pete Golas, ten other men and seven companies for conspiracy to evade price ceilings on meat. OPA investigators said that Pete and his henchmen took $650,000 "cash on the side" while selling $3,000,000 worth of beef in New York and New Jersey. Price Boss Prentiss Brown called Pete the nation's No. 1 meatlegger...
...Washington term for the academicians who used to be called "brain-trusters" is "slide-rule boys." Last week the slide-rule boys were engaged in a struggle for survival with a man fresh to the capital-Lou Russel Maxon, second-in-command to Prentiss Brown...
...petitioned Boss Brown to remove Maxon, as he was using "public office to further private interests and private views." The OPA boss, good & mad, retorted with a sharp memo to his staff: henceforth, all "plans, orders, field instructions, questionnaires, enforcement regulations" were to clear through Lou Maxon. Last week Prentiss Brown went further. Henceforth OPA's 2,700 lawyers, backbone of the slide-rule cabal, will merely give "legal counsel." Messrs. Brown and Maxon stood shoulder to shoulder...
...argument over sugar for home canning. Messrs. O'Leary and Rowe said there was not enough sugar to give housewives an extra supply; consumers must give up a lot of ration coupons to get canning sugar. The slide-rulers stubbornly insisted nothing else would work. But Prentiss Brown went to the Agriculture Department and the War Shipping Administration, worked out an arrangement to import 200,000 tons of Cuba sugar for home canners, who will get it without surrendering ration coupons...
...crippling decentralization goes even further. Another agency under Prentiss Brown rules farm prices. The only insurance that Davis will be just another electron flying around the nucleus of the OPA is the possibility of his referring disputes to stabilization director Byrnes. Function stands apart from power, for Wickard is a member of the Economic Stabilization Board while Davis is not. Wickard continues to represent the United States on the Combined Food Board although Davis needs information on lend-lease food aid to manage production and distribution. Overburdening executives is one thing; halving authority is another. If active organization and comprehensive...