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...appointed Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch as his personal adviser...
These jobs had been crying for a taker for three years. By recognizing that they are OWM's plain duty, Byrnes pointed his new agency aright. And by giving a formal job to aged Bernie Baruch he had started with the right kind of help...
...Bernie Baruch ran the famed War Industries Board in World War I, showed such a grasp of total war that the German military men later wrote of his handiwork in awe. In World War II, from his favorite bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House, he has been an informal adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and many members of the war cabinet. But not until this week-except for his brief tour of duty investigating the 1942 rubber scandal-did Bernie Baruch lose his unofficial status. He will still serve without pay or title...
Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch got a wire of thanks from Mrs. Winston Churchill. She said that she and her daughters were glad to have a couple of dozen silk stockings he had slipped among the Prime Minister's effects for them...
...same squeeze play occurred in the last war, but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver (to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap importers-and their bagless customers-wish they had another Baruch...