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...Jimmy Byrnes did not hesitate to leave the eminence of the Supreme Court, and its $20,000-a-year income for life, for a job that will be one of the meanest in the war effort. He well remembers his humble background: he was born after his father's death in a decrepit Charleston house, delivered the dresses that his mother sewed for a living, started as a law-firm office boy at 14, worked up to being a court reporter and studied law on the side. (He still takes his own shorthand notes at 150 words a minute...
...a-year vice chairman of WPB, with "top production authority in the war program," Charles Erwin Wilson, president of General Electric...
...impatient Reese Taylor, who thought no time should be lost in winning the war. Even when he got an O.K. from Boss Donald Nelson, his plans sometimes bogged down in the layers of "advisers." When his steel branch was gibbeted in an unauthorized report by a $5,600-a-year WPB hireling, it was about the last straw. Last week, when his new steel quota plan (TIME, Aug. 24) seemed to have been lost in a shuffle of compromise around Donald Nelson, Reese Taylor up and quit...
...night, after he has cleaned up his desk, he reverts to his old job as publisher of the Daily News, which still pays him $60,000 to make up the difference between his $15,000-a-year Cabinet job and the $75,000 salary he used to draw in Chicago. Almost every night he talks long-distance to chubby, nervous John O'Keefe, who was his private secretary and now holds the reins as vice president of the Daily News. He hears reports, gives orders, rebukes erring staff members. Before he goes to bed at 10:30, he reads...
...front-page story in that morning's Washington Post bore a shocking headline: INEFFICIENCY, WASTE LAID TO WPB's IRON, STEEL BRANCH. Said the Post scoop: a young, $5,600-a-year WPB consultant named Frederick I. Libbey was cooking up a report which would blister the WPB's Iron & Steel Branch; after consultation around the country with steel experts he had found gross mismanagement in Washington; he was convinced the steel branch experts were second-rate ex-salesmen palmed off on the Government by steel companies who don't need salesmen any more. Only...