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...also a $5,600-a-year assistant to Secretary Harold L. Ickes. He earned his pay mainly by giving a polish to Ickes' literary style - touching up the boss's let ters and speeches. Briggs told the press: "I don't know who is back of this or where it is leading, but I think Langer is getting into a pretty tight spot." The letters Langer held suggested that Briggs had got "The Hopkins Letter" from Ickes. The "Umphrey" of "The Hopkins Letter," it appeared, was Dr. Umphrey Lee, president of Southern Methodist University in Dallas...
Pants will have plenty of time to justify his reputation for surprises. His $12,500-a-year term as Pacific Coast League president runs until...
James H. Graham, onetime engineering professor at the University of Kentucky, had no idea that his one-page memo would launch a $134,000,000 rumpus. An old friend and $1-a-year assistant to the U.S. Army Service Force's Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Mr. Graham had been asked to figure out a quick, sure way to supply the Alaska Highway with oil and high-octane gas. Engineer Graham studied maps and mulled over the problem at intervals for two months in the spring of 1942. Then he suggested: Why not develop the Canadian oil resources...
...back just in time to receive the resignations of three top assistants. Tough, hard-driving WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson, TIME, NOVEMBER 22, 1943 who has been slashing away at politics, bureaucracy and Army red tape for 14 months, was planning to go back to his $175,000-a-year job as president of General Electric. Well aware that production of planes, rubber, radio and trucks still lags, Charlie Wilson also knew that he had successfully pulled U.S. production through. Said he: the big job is done; went back to General Electric. Also resigning : Hiland G. Batcheller, WPB operational...
...Production Board had good news for the U.S. last week: October air craft production hit a new record of 8,362 planes (764 more than September), thus reached the long-sought 100,000-a-year rate for the first time...