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...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...
...trees were brown and bare in Washington's Lafayette Square. The sun no longer took the chill off the park bench which is the office of Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch, Presidential adviser...
...Baruch accepted a new indoor job last week. The job: 1) to put muscle into the Administration's fight against inflation; 2) to pull together the masses of Washington's postwar plans. This was a task of dazing magnitude, because probably all Government postwar domestic policy will be based on the Old Man's findings. His staff: mostly his present right-hand man, Banker John Hancock. The office: "I don't know where definitely. But a park bench is too flippant for this...
...hereby nominate B. M. Baruch. . . . Mr. Baruch is not only giving his time to help our country while using the bench in the park for his office, but I know for a fact many hundreds of men he has helped with college education without being reimbursed. He sent me to Europe for study-yet will not let me repay...
...conservatives, such as he had available. Although the views of Messrs. Harriman & Stettinius are more New Dealish than those of most U.S. industrialists, the President in 1944 will be able to point to them, as well as to Businessmen Frank Knox, Jesse Jones, Leo Crowley, James V. Forrestal, Bernard Baruch, Donald Nelson, Chester Bowles, Robert A. Lovett, as representatives in the administration of the business viewpoint. (To Conservatives he can point out Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, the Southern Democrats-and he can always manage to get rid of New Dealers *Harry Hopkins...