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Among politicians the choice was popular; the top radio trade journals (Broadcasting, Radio Daily) praised the appointment. Kentuckian Porter, a tall (6 ft. 4 In.), convivial ex-newsman (Lexington Herald) is an able lawyer and a seasoned bureaucrat (AAA, OPA, WFA, OES). Friend of Henry Wallace, Leon Henderson and General "Ike" Eisenhower, he has been an ardent New Dealer since 1933. Having learned the ins & outs of radio during five years (1937-42) as Washington lawyer-lobbyist for CBS, he could probably earn far more outside of Government than the FCChairman's $10,000 salary...
...magnitude of the assault on Mrs. Luce by New Deal press and speakers was in ratio to the size of her attack on the New Deal. From Harold Ickes, whom she dismissed as "that prodigious bureaucrat with the soul of a meat ax and the mind of a commissar," all the way up to the President, she spared no New Dealer. No other Republican orator except Candidates Dewey and Bricker hit the President so hard, so often and before such large crowds. None spoke so sharply...
...Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another bureaucrat (Charles Ruggles), who is too amorous to keep his mind on affairs of state, 4) a G-man, a porter, two chambermaids, five babies, a proudly beavered Orthodox priest. This screen version...
...Smith. He took a contented look at price-and-wage control, at war-bond sales, and the natural American disinclination to pay a lot for a little, and satisfied himself that in "the last few months . . . the American economy has reached a state of balance." He took, however, a bureaucrat's look at the future: "This balance is of a very delicate nature and . . . would be destroyed if we should relax wartime controls too early...
...turbulent early years of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government, the brilliant, Harvard-educated Soong performed prodigies of finance and foreign policy as Chiang's No. 2 man while brother-in-law Kung was just a well-placed bureaucrat. But by 1933 Dr. Kung emerged as Finance Minister...