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Last week, when Governor James Byrnes announced that his longtime friend, Donald Stuart Russell, would be the admiral's successor, the odor of politics arose again. But this time the scent was false. Students, alumni and facultymen had been consulted, and all had agreed that Russell was a good...
A Faulty Pipeline. Subcommittee members wanted to know about all of Caudle's deals while McGrath was his boss. What about such things as the $5,000 commission Caudle got on an airplane bought by Larry Knohl, an ex-convict "investigator" for two shady machinery dealers who were defendants...
On Russia. In 1945 Forrestal noted happily that Harry Truman had grasped the point that the Russians despise concession as weakness. After Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes had left office, he confided to Forrestal that Stalin did not like Truman personally. Observed Forrestal: "Mr. Truman was the first one who...
The Kefauver Committee invited him to appear in Miami and testify. He refused. Angrily, the committee, now organized under the chairmanship of Maryland's Senator Herbert O'Conor, who was once a governor himself, slapped a subpoena on the governor, ordering him to show up in Washington this...
After he became a National Affairs writer for TIME in 1942, Fuerbringer did a dozen cover stories during the war years. Among them : Charles Wilson, Arthur Vandenberg, James Byrnes, Thomas Dewey, Harry Hopkins. The first of his two covers on Harry Truman, published a week before the 1944 election, was...