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They talked in undertones for an hour, shooing away pigeons and inquisitive strollers. Then newsmen spotted Bernie Baruch's tall, white-topped frame, his long, crossed legs revealing the inevitable high black shoes. The conference came to a reluctant end. Presidents Conant and Compton put on their coats. Tall Bernie Baruch walked, in his deliberate, soldierly stride, back to his suite at the Carlton Hotel...
Wise, fact-demanding Bernie Baruch is 72 this week, and somewhat deaf. But his friends know that when he cups his hand to his good right ear and asks that a question be repeated he is often just stalling. And he can well make a park bench his office: he carries all the facts and principles of war economy in his patrician head...
...Rubber Scandal had become the outstanding mess of World War II economics. If Baruch & friends could settle it neatly in one swift operation, they would be in a strategic position to take on other economic problems now looming...
Less Talking, More Facts. Day before, in a stroke which inspired confidence in & out of Washington, Franklin Roosevelt had made these three men his Rubber Committee. Their chairman: Baruch. Their job: to probe all synthetic rubber possibilities, weigh the whole question in relation to war needs and the supply of raw materials, report back quickly to the President. To give them a clear hand, President Roosevelt had vetoed a bill-shoved through Congress by the farm bloc -which would have set up an independent agency to make synthetic rubber from agricultural and forest products...
...tall (6 ft. 3½ in.), slow-speaking, kindly Bernie Baruch, the appointment meant restoration to the field where he made his greatest success, as master of wartime economics. Since war's beginning he has helped the Administration regularly on informal assignments, and given it the benefit of his experience as World War I's head of war production. Now again, in a time of crisis, the U.S. has called on the Wall Street wizard of the early 1900s...