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Luckily TIME'S early readers were much less bearish. For instance, within a month of the first issue, Charter Subscriber Thomas W. Lamont told his friends that TIME was "a brilliant feat." Colonel House said the infant magazine "filled a long-felt need." Bernard M. Baruch proclaimed TIME "the best condensation I have seen...
...Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
...count of foreknowledge, Baruch might well be the man. Years ago he saw that all wartime economic problems were so interrelated that no single step should be taken without adjustments in all fields. Understanding the whole, he might help mightily with a part...
...Baruch has two other great advantages: it is certain that he would surround himself with aides of unquestioned integrity and ability; and no man is more conscious than Franklin Roosevelt of Bernard Baruch's loyalty to his President...
President Conant's appointment to the rubber board, consisting of Bernard Baruch, chairman of the board, and Karl Compton, president of M. I. T., came on the heel of a White House veto of a bill authorizing the manufacture of synthetic rubber from grain alcohol. President Roosevelt established the committee in order to survey the needs and possibilities and make an early recommendation...