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With relief the committee then turned from these disagreeable reminders to listen to the voice of experience, that of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I defense tsar. Baruch's testimony had been advertised as a thwacking assault on the bill. Several committeemen hoped this would include a few attacks on Henderson. But tall, silver-haired Bernard Baruch had nothing to say against Henderson; he paid him tribute, called him "Brother...
...Baruch's testimony was much more than an attack on the bill. In a few hours he strove to educate 16 Representatives in the entire theory of total war, to persuade them into his belief that price control is essential, now. But price control, "the greatest single necessity of our present crisis," he argued, "must be intimately tied up and move in step with all other war controls, wage and rent control, priorities, conservation, commandeering, war trade, war finance. . . . They are like the fingers of a hand. Without all together, the job cannot be done satisfactorily...
Chief points in Statesman Baruch's lesson...
...John Roosevelt graduated from Harvard's Navy Supply School, was assigned to San Diego's Naval Air Station as assistant supply officer. // Captain Elliott Roosevelt was ordered to Kelly Field for a course in aerial navigation. 11 In a blackout rehearsal at Port Washington, L.I., Bernard M. Baruch and Herbert Bayard Swope directed traffic, Baroness Robert de Rothschild served as a chauffeur. // Betty Grable turned up in Manhattan with a sweater her publicity handlers swore was knitted for her by the R.A.F. // Mme. Chiang Kai-shek sent panda-hunters to Tibet to replace the Bronx...
...working Baruch for the duration was the man chosen to be SPAB's executive director: Donald Marr Nelson, ex-vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and until last week OPM's Purchasing Director...