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...first press conference last week new OPA Boss Prentiss E. Brown admitted that prices would continue "an inevitable, slow, well-ordered rise." This increase, he believed, would proceed at the current rate of one-half of 1% per month...
...Made two appointments which were almost unanimously praised: ex-Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan, to succeed Leon Henderson as director of the Office of Price Administration, and Federal Judge Wiley B. Rutledge Jr., to succeed Economic Czar James F. Byrnes as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...something for the rich to worry about will be brought up with a jolt. April-The first robin will be reported in all New England States. The first baseball holdouts will be reported in all others. May-There will be a new ration card. June-[Ex]Senator Prentiss Brown will wonder why he ever took Henderson's job. November-Hitler will proclaim all the Russian armies annihilated...
Though he is no friend of the farm bloc, Prentiss Brown will get along with Congress far better than Leon Henderson. He is quiet, unobtrusive, unspectacular. He has a politico's respect for sore toes. And on Capitol Hill he is known warmly as an engaging, modest first-termer who arrived in Washington as a wearer of old-fashioned nightshirts, a man whose idea of a good time was to visit Washington's old cemeteries...
...short time able, yet defeated, Senator Prentiss M. Brown will reluctantly move into Leon Henderson's hot spot as head of OPA (see p. 13). Massachusetts' able Thomas H. Eliot will head the British Division in the London Bureau of OWL But the list of defeated, deserving Democrats is much longer than three; and the ambitions of some of the candidates are not as restrained as Senator Brown's. California's bumbling Governor Culbert Levy Olson blithely told friends in Washington last week his eyes were lifted toward the Supreme Court vacancy...