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...dealing with labor has consistently urged moderation, cooperation; Walter Clark Teagle, chairman of the board of Standard Oil of N. J., a top-notch production man with a knack for getting on with oilmen; Eugene Meyer, millionaire publisher (Washington Post), ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernard Baruch's financial right hand on the War Industries Board, ex-chairman of RFC, "Butch" to his irreverent workers; and Roger Dearborn Lapharn, chairman of the board of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, organizer and vice president of the San Francisco Employers Council. From...
...cannot work more than six or seven hours a day, a smart young New Dealer, handsome Oscar Cox, a Treasury assistant, was assigned to act as legal adviser to Hopkins. The move in effect put Hopkins in as the nearest Roosevelt approach to a Defense Tsar, such as Bernard Baruch was in World War I. But Mr. Roosevelt will continue to run things, with the team of Knudsenhillman assigned more & more to the physical workshop of defense...
...chairman of this supergroup, corresponding to Bernard Baruch in the World War I effort of the U. S., should, by rank and weight, be the Secretary of State. But sainted Mr. Hull, full of years and ill health-and no New Dealer-is not to be it. The New Dealers, who admire Mr. Hull but not his views, will just have to await his retirement...
...some had expected, appointed a National Defense Tsar, endowed with more power than Bernard Mannes Baruch had had as head of the War Industries Board of 1918. Franklin Roosevelt's answer was a super-defense board, on which he had hung a cumbersome jawbreaker-Office for Production Management for Defense. (Later he referred to it as the "Big Four.") Its director: Big Bill Knudsen. Other members: Laborman Sidney Hillman (with the title of associate director), Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Secretary of War Henry Stimson...
Main point of dispute was whether prices should be allowed to go up again or not. No. 1 advocate of price dictatorship was ex-Baruch-aide General Hugh ("Old Ironpants") Johnson. Said he: "You can't stop a skyrocket advance in prices of everything merely by tying prices of a few things to the ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government...