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Winston Churchill's likeness* by Douglas Chandor, well-heeled portrayer of the well-heeled; brought probably the highest U.S. price ever paid for a contemporary portrait: $25,000. The buyer: Bernard Baruch, who planned to keep it a while, then decide what museum should have...
Bernard M. Baruch, whose fair-weather office as wartime presidential adviser was a Washington park bench, was back on the bench, but this time in Manhattan's Central Park. The U.S. representative to U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission conducted Visitor Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to it, observed: "Oh, oh-someone's taken the office." But the woman with the baby carriage moved away...
...that the bomb could shorten the war came at a time when high military officials considered the whole scheme expendable. It was a force behind President Roosevelt's decision to allow the project to grow beyond the blueprint stage. Later in 1942, Conant, as a member of the Baruch Committee, was asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still-secret N.D.R.C., he was trying to use the same dwindling stocks of gasoline and construction steel (base materials for the synthetic rubber program) for the production of the bomb. At a later crisis...
...Unanimously confirmed Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch as U.S. representative on U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission; approved (66-9) Missourian James K. Vardaman Jr.'s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors...
...give you this thought," said Baruch. "There should be a high court of commerce set up to which [all economic] disputes can be taken for adjudication in order that we may work out a program on the basis of the principles which made this country great. If this is not done, we shall soon find ourselves in the morass of confusion that will bring us either to Fascism or Communism...