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...about increasing the powers of the President, argued that he did not now need the authority to allocate and restrict and might never need them. Harry Truman himself asked for moderate powers, seemed to hope that by lecturing capital, labor and consumers, he could get by. Men like Bernard Baruch argued that the longer the grant of full powers was postponed, the harder it would be to invoke controls when they were needed...
...Bernard Baruch, and apparently most of his fellow citizens, were saying was that the President had better have the power to head inflation off, whether he himself thought he needed...
...voted out a bill giving the President real wartime price controls. The bill lost by one vote-10 to 9. The man who almost succeeded in persuading the committee to meet the nation's crisis head-on was a tall, hunch-shouldered man in his 80th year - Bernard Baruch...
...felt he might "expose a sense of frustration trying to express how deeply I do agree." Truth, he said, should be the U.S.'s "T-bomb," under control of "a general staff of a new kind," divorced from the State Department and "headed by some great American." Bernard Baruch thought that the job ought to go to "a body of thinkers," reporting directly to the President...
...advice of his old friend and first employer, Bernard Baruch, Columnist-Showman Billy Rose turned down an offer of $25,000 a week to do a television show for RCA, became instead consulting director for the 1953 California World Progress Exposition. Salary: one pound of his favorite tobacco (Mixture...