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...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...
...stick OPA has some $400 million of RFC funds to draw on. But Congress, led by the farm bloc, is so dead set against subsidies that it has talked of specific legislation against them. And statisticians calculated that $400 million could roll back the price level only 1%. Yet Prentiss Brown proposed to whack 6% off the cost of living. Meanwhile, with the first roll backs scheduled for this week, no one had any specific plans for subsidies...
...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...