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...chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson and ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt...
...Come out flatly against overspending for veterans' emergency housing. (Allen's refusal to lend $32 million to the fledgling Lustron Corp. to build metal prefabricated houses precipitated the Administration battle that ended with the ousting of Housing Director Wilson Wyatt...
...recent executive act, completely and irrevocably throwing Wilson Wyatt's program into the presidential ashcan, makes even more pressing the crystallizing of public sentiment on this vital issue," Karson said...
Last week nervous Wilson Wyatt took his troubles to the President. It took days to get the appointment. When Wyatt was finally admitted, he spread new demands on Harry Truman's desk. Their substance: all-out Government lending, stricter controls on nonresidential building, top priorities for veterans' housing. The President promised to think it all over...
...week's end the White House was still significantly silent. Washington dopesters guessed what the answer would be: to sweep the emergency housing program into the new catch-all agency for the ragtag ends of CPA and OPA. That would leave Wilson Wyatt standing in the rain...