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The preposterous blackout on news of the President's movements was lifted to a merely annoying brownout. Early this week the White House announced that President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes had left Newport News by ship for the Big Three meeting in Potsdam. The news that the...
Trim, grey James Francis Byrnes tasted long denied sweets. Franklin Roosevelt had bypassed him as his choice for Vice President in 1944; for what it was worth, he was now next in line of succession to the U.S. Presidency. More important, Franklin Roosevelt had bypassed him as his Secretary of...
Last week Jimmy Byrnes took the oath as Secretary of State, kissed the Bible, passed it on to President Truman to raise to his lips. Then Byrnes went right to work with a first official statement: there would be no basic change in U.S. foreign policy, no immediate changes in...
Like most Congressmen, Fred Vinson found that his $10,000 salary did not go very far. When a $12,500-a-year job on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia opened up in 1938, he took it. He left it,, five years later, to succeed his...
Meanwhile, on a flood of laudatory oratory, in rode Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark, Postmaster General Robert Emmett Hannegan, Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Presba Anderson. This week's plans called for James Francis Byrnes to be sworn in as Secretary of State (see above). Washington...