Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Baruch, finally become an official member of the Administration, did not have to change his working habits. He still drew a salary of nothing a year, which is all he needs. In his new job as consultant to Czar of Czars James F. Byrnes, he still operated from...
"In taking on this work," he wrote, "I am assuming that the Office of War Mobilization will be effective, and that it is to be the final expression of the Commander in Chief, and therefore, it will not be bypassed or sidetracked. Justice Byrnes, if not blocked, will improve things...
These jobs had been crying for a taker for three years. By recognizing that they are OWM's plain duty, Byrnes pointed his new agency aright. And by giving a formal job to aged Bernie Baruch he had started with the right kind of help.
President Roosevelt announced that he would present a new fiscal program to Congress before the summer recess- pointing out the danger of the "inflationary gap" and asking for new taxes. By week's end he had all his financial advisers working on the program: War Mobilize? James F. Byrnes...
> Others who take their exercise on horseback are Secretary of the Treasury Henry L. Morgenthau and Justice Robert H. Jackson. But the rest-men like War Mobilization Chief James F. Byrnes, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown and WPBoss Donald Nelson-take the easiest way. Like top-flight...