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Bespectacled Clerk Holzer, who broke through OPA's you-can't-do-that rules to put over the mailing scheme, was scheduled for induction last May. But Holzer knew his own plan so much better than his superiors that OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown got his induction stayed. Fortnight ago the crucial stage of the mailing safely past, Good Bureaucrat Holzer reported to Fort Myer, Va., was assigned to the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the Seabees. Given the Navy's usual week furlough before going on active duty, Clerk Holzer turned up at the New York...
Next day level-headed Prentiss Brown, untearful at Lou Maxon's departure, announced that from now on every new rationing program would first be submitted to Congress for its approval and funds...
...More Gasoline. The slow pulsing (three miles an hour) of the oil along Big Inch's 1,475-mile journey was the steadiest progress that the East's crucial gas & oil shortage made last week. In Washington, D.C., moves came quicker, but produced no oil. OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown prematurely announced that the pleasure-driving ban on Eastern motorists would be lifted "as soon as possible." Harold Ickes countered that Big Inch was chiefly a military supply line, would "give no more gasoline for pleasure driving." Representative Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey, chairman of an unofficial Congressional committee...
...laws? Are commissars sitting in the offices of every policy-making official of this Government? You and I cannot excuse ourselves. We will go back to the people and they will say: 'We sent you to Washington to represent us. We did not send [Jimmy] Byrnes, or [Prentiss] Brown, or [Fred] Vinson, or [Marvin] Jones.' And you and I will have to answer to the people...
...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...