Word: bew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deliberately or not, President Roosevelt left Cordell Hull out of his calculations when he fixed up the Board of Economic Warfare with a new set of brass buttons and final authority in international economic matters (TIME, April 27). Some newspapers concluded that BEW now had superseded the State Department in international affairs...
...erred. Mr. Roosevelt had said very clearly that the BEW henceforth was to "determine the policies [and] plans . . . with respect to the procurement and production [of materials abroad]." The order had given a boost to Vice President Wallace, Milo Perkins, and their BEW; had thrown State into a dignified dither. The upstart BEW seemed to have been authorized to rush into State's well-kept gardens, trample State's delicate diplomatic plants abroad...
...order, Mr. Roosevelt said last week, would be "clarified." All negotiations would be carried on through State. Judge Hull was still boss of all U.S. foreign relations, including trade. BEW would simply handle the financial and technical ends of procurement...
...When BEW was set up last summer, with Wallace as chairman, Perkins was in bed, recovering from an abdominal operation that nearly killed him. But until he was up & around, organization of BEW had to wait: Wallace would have no one else for the job of executive director...
...Fired from BEW last week was balding Dr. Maurice Parmelee, attacked by the Dies Committee for writing a book on nudism in 1927. BEW said that his job had been abolished in reorganization...