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President Roosevelt last week set up the Office of Lend-Lease Administration, with snow-crested Edward R. Stettinius. Washington pun haters, noting the bureau's initials, grimly girded themselves. But after their bout with the initials of the Office of Facts & Figures (OFF), the town's punsters seemed exhausted, could offer little but "Praise OLLA...
Call in the Wilds. In the fall of 1939, General Wood and three friends were on a hunting trip in Canada when word was brought to them by an Indian runner that war had started in Europe. The message came from Edward Stettinius, chairman of the War Resources Board newly appointed by the President, and it summoned General Wood to Washington, back to duty as a member of that Board...
...President's desk in "books" of as many as 20 at once. Two copies of each order must be signed, one for the Lend-Lease administration, one for the Treasury. Last week Franklin Roosevelt got rid of this particular routine job-by designating white-haired, handsome Edward R. Stettinius Jr. a special assistant administrator (at $10,000 a year) with authority to sign the President's name to Lend-Lease orders. This authority gives Ed Stettinius no real increase in power, but it may save as much as a day in getting Lend-Lease orders through the Government...
Besides starting an overall survey of defense requirements (see above), the Supply Priorities & Allocations Board hacked away busily last week at the priorities jungle which ex-Chief Ed Stettinius left behind...
Ickes cannot watch any spectacle for than a few minutes without comment, usually acidulous. First he chafed. Then his hackles rose. Finally he boiled over, blew his top. His basic point: the U.S. is going to run out of everything. He ran out of aluminum months before Big Ed Stettinius' materials division saw any real problem. He ran out of steel in January, although the President, Economist Gano Dunn and Stettinius were still insisting in February that the U.S. had of plenty of steel. In quick succession Harold Ickes then ran out of electric power, coal, transportation, railroad & shipping...