Word: prentiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conversion took shape thus: first, he began to streamline the sprawling agency (48,500 paid employes, 50,000 volunteers, eight regional offices, hundreds of state and district units). Next, he sought to win friends with a new policy of friendliness. Over each of his plan's two phases Prentiss Brown set a deputy...
...start the process, Prentiss Brown ordered no further expansion of OPA per sonnel-except in the rationing division, where more clerks are needed for meat rationing...
...John E. Hamm, Leon Henderson's cousin, who resigned as Senior Deputy Administrator. Next, C. David Ginsburg, once Leon Henderson's right hand, resigned as General Counsel. Deferred from military service at Leon Henderson's request, Lawyer Ginsburg, 30, sought an Army commission, as Congressmen fumed. Prentiss Brown moved shrewdly: he had already ordered no draft deferments for anyone on OPA's payroll...
Salesman. Prentiss Brown's second major deputy is big, genial Lou Russel Maxon, who built up Maxon, Inc. of Detroit from a nickel-&-dime business into one of the foremost U.S. advertising agencies. He has the job of making the people love the price policy. Brown and Maxon went to work to humanize...
...Congressman's point of view, Prentiss Brown tactfully invited the Senate to set up a committee to consult with OPA; like trout jumping for a fly, the legislators snapped at the invitation...