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...four long weeks he had slept twelve hours every night in the indolent air of Hobcaw Barony, Bernard Baruch's 23,000-acre South Carolina plantation, 60 miles north of Charleston. He had sunned himself on the pier that juts out into the brackish waters of Winyah Bay. He had cast for bass in plantation ponds, gone crabbing and snagged eels from the pier, fished up & down the Black and Waccamaw Rivers on a 54-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles...
Bernard Mannes Baruch peeled off $1,100,000 for teaching and research in "physical medicine"-the use of the healing properties found in such agents as air, light, heat, cold, massage and electricity. Physical medicine was originally recommended to Benefactor Baruch by his father, Confederate Surgeon Simon Baruch. Almost all ($900,000) of the gift went to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York University's College of Medicine, the Medical College of Virginia (from which Baruch's Confederate-Surgeon father Dr. Simon Baruch graduated 82 years...
...Benefits. Then Jimmy Byrnes came to grips with the question of dismissal pay for war workers. The Administration has pointedly ignored labor's demands for pay to tide over the men suddenly washed out of war jobs. The Baruch-Hancock report (TIME, Feb. 28) had likewise sidestepped the issue. Now Jimmy Byrnes flatly opposed such pay. He objected that "the dismissal wage would bear no exact relation to the needs of the workers. Some who might quickly find new jobs would get more than they needed, while others would get less." He recognized that there is certain...
Down Taxes. Jimmy Byrnes, praising the Baruch-Hancock report, promised U.S. industry that as much of it as possible would be made effective by Presidential order, pending Congressional action. But on the question of taxes, which many a U.S. businessman considers the No. 1 postwar problem, Jimmy Byrnes was vague...
...That the rise was reinforced by the Baruch report and other Washington evidence that the U.S. Government intends to grease reconversion with plenty of cash as well as good intentions...