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Where the draft was coming from no one could guess. In 1940 many an Administration bigwig, and some citizens, demanded that the President run again. This political year had seen the President drafted only by Illinois's aged (76) Representative Adolph J. Sabath (TIME, March 1) and by West Virginia's Governor Matthew M. Neely, overwhelmingly repudiated by his State's voters in last autumn's election and since defeated in his State Legislature on every turn...
...draft files were statements from Senators Truman, Burton, Representative Lea and many another Congressional bigwig recommending hearings for MRA workers, or at least endorsing the vaguely stated precepts of MRA. By last week those statements were causing many a headache...
...Congressional committee gnawing over the U.S. shortage of doctors called as witnesses both Dr. Morris Fishbein, American Medical Association bigwig, and mountain-moving Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, who in the name of wartime efficiency is providing his tens of thousands of employes with medical attention at a fixed fee of 50? a week. The two did not clash directly but when Fishbein said priorities made the building of new hospitals impossible, Kaiser snorted: "We are doing it." Said Dr. Fishbein blandly: "You are a very strong man, Mr. Kaiser." Before the hearing was over the strong-minded duo had given...
Last week more political breezes blew in from the West-farther West, this time-and to Democrats they were chill indeed. From Guadalcanal came grave news (see p. 30). Democrats had hoped for a battlefield victory in October; this looked like something else. Said one Democratic bigwig: "If we lose the Solomons, it is going to be terrible. The loss of the Solomons, if we do finally lose them, is going to set this country afire. Hell's fire, the people will...
Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes-who is one Washington bigwig businessmen can talk sense to-agreed on this point, told committeemen, "We must take every possible measure to stimulate the search for new oil reserves. . . . The price situation might well be reviewed...