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...rise in the G.O.P. stems from the turbulent days of the late Len Small, onetime Governor of Illinois. Small made him his protege; gave him his first job at 16 addressing letters. When Small won the governorship in 1920, Schroeder became Secretary of the State's Legislative Reference Bureau. When Small was indicted for having withheld State funds while he was Treasurer, Schroeder defended him, won a sensational acquittal, which was followed by charges of jury fixing.* Known as a good organizer and money-raiser, prosperous Lawyer Schroeder is close-mouthed and shrewd. When he does make a statement...
Harddriving, shrewd Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express, Evening Standard) moved to double the Express' U.S. staff. He added a reporter to his one-man Washington bureau, planned to inaugurate a San Francisco office, make two or three more men available for national coverage out of New York City. Explained Cecil Vincent Raymond Thompson, chief of the Express' Manhattan bureau: "The idea is to increase the quality more than the quantity of output ... to provide the best possible inside on America for Britain...
OPRD was eleven months overdue. As far back as last April Nelson appointed a reconnoitering committee, headed by bombastic, nonscientific Maury Maverick, ex-Congressman, ex-mayor of San Antonio, to make recommendations for a bureau of production research. Maverick did his work quietly for once. Yet the result was a politico-scientific rumpus which brought to a head the issue: should WPB's research problems be assigned mainly to big, well-heeled research plants or to small, specialized laboratories? For a solution, much depended on the character of the man appointed to head OPRD. WPBoss Nelson has neatly avoided...
Elliott Perkins, head of the War Service Information Bureau, also remarked on the similarity of the announcement to what President Conant has been urging for some time. "It is an excellent plan," Perkins said, "and is absolutely essential...