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After only a month on the job as Minister of National Defense for all three services, Brooke Claxton last week swung his new broom. Calling in reporters, he laid out his plans to sweep out all fuss & frills from the Army, Navy and Air Force, chop $50 million off the $440 million in this year's defense budget...
...promised to write for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a report on RFC consolidation, a report by the monetary committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, an article on the Niirnberg trials, the Economic Report of the President. In a corner of his office he noticed one of the brooms which Ohio's Congressman George Bender, for a gag, had distributed to his G.O.P. colleagues when the new-broom Republican Congress had convened. Senator Taft, recalling the nasty morning, took it along. His car would be covered with snow...
...dead center, coattails flapping, briefcase in one hand, broom in the other, he marched down the corridor, heading for home, with the firm tread of a man who has thought of everything...
There was a little clowning before the opening. Ohio's George H. Bender gave each of his G.O.P. colleagues a new broom tagged: "Here's yours-let's do the job." But when the gavel fell, the House put on its best party manners...
...Government securities regulations and 2) his way around Washington. Francis Truslow knows both. A Yale graduate who later studied law at Harvard, Truslow worked for two Wall Street legal firms, helped develop regulations under the Securities Exchange Act, headed the Government's Rubber Development Corp. No new-broom wielder, Truslow plans "to do a great deal of listening . . . before indulging in any perceptible amount of talking...