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Philip Francis Maguire, 37, is a genial, rock-jawed Irishman who went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...
...first five months of 1942, more combat ships were added to the U.S. Fleet than in any twelve-month period since the President, with no encouragement from Congress and some protest, used NRA funds to launch his naval-production program...
When Leon Henderson's wholesale price ceiling went into effect, the U.S. entered into a controlled economy which made the old NRA strait jacket look like a sport shirt. Next week the retail ceiling will follow; the strait jacket will be laced...
...with the bottle nose was modest: the eyes of the people in that winter of 1933-34 were on him-General Hugh S. Johnson, commander in chief of NRA. The glory, was 400 codes signed, 20,000.000 of the country's workers covered, child labor on the way out, 2,785,000 people back at work and $3,000,000,000 added to the nation's payroll (he claimed), torchlight parades, blaring radios, speeches in the streets, everybody promising: "We Do Our Part." The U.S. had broken out of its long depression paralysis...
...nose resigned. The Supreme Court ended it for good & all. The General became a Scripps-Howard columnist-by turns for seven years morose, exultant, vitriolic, sentimental, wrathful, lachrymose. Old Army man, he scolded upstart militarists, nagged the new New Deal ("economic pansies"), yearned for the old New Deal of NRA. He lambasted "my friend Franklin Roosevelt." From time to time he saw things with an amazingly discerning eye. From time to time he lost himself in strange clouds, wandered, a bitter wraith, among his own uncertainties. He was "Old Ironpants." He had a spell of isolationism. In April 1941, when...