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Jesse Jones's RFC had lost a few branches which deal in foreign purchases. Along with the remnants of BEW, these now become the new Office of Economic Warfare, headed by the Administration's oldtime trouble shooter, able Leo T. Crowley. But Jesse Jones will control the purse strings. And Leo Crowley, 53, is a friend who keeps an autographed photo of Jesse Jones behind his desk...
...BEW has tried for over a year now to do its job in spite of the obstructionist tactics Mr. Jones has employed. . . For all the full power the President has given the BEW over imports, we are helpless when Jesse Jones, as our banker, refuses to sign checks in accordance with our directives...
...Jones had been charged with the duty of importing stock piles of materials vital to war production. Item by item, Henry Wallace went down the list, showing how many tons the war production agencies wanted, how much Jesse Jones had bought in his two-year tenure, how many tons BEW had then bought in the following nine months. His figures looked damning...
Product Tons asked by OPM-WPB Contracted for by Jones BEW...
Patriotic or Profligate? Jesse Jones scorned all of BEW's methods. He asserted...