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At the White House Harry Truman talked, notably, with Jimmy Byrnes (see below), Moscow Ambassador W. Averell Harriman (on the Polish question), Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (on Yalta), General of the Army George C. Marshall (on plans), Budget Director Harold D. Smith (on cuts in expenditures), Senator Walter F. George...
At the President's summons, ex-War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes came up from South Carolina again last week, twice sat in long conferences with Harry Truman. The visits of the man who had been Senator, Supreme Court Justice and Assistant President to Franklin Roosevelt set political dopesters to doping...
Even the wisest of the dopesters was ready to admit that this was" a guess. The President had dropped no hint of what he planned, and neither had canny, sharp-eyed Jimmy Byrnes himself. But there was plenty of reason for believing that Byrnes, who had resigned a few days...
By now everybody knew that Harry Truman was not satisfied with his State Department, which had never known too much about Franklin Roosevelt's international dealings. Next to Harry Hopkins, Byrnes probably knew more than any man. Furthermore, he had his own on-the-spot judgment of the personalities...
Old Face, New Job. To hustle reconversion along still faster, Home Front Czar Fred M. Vinson last week put an old face into a new job. He named gorilla-shouldered Robert Roy Nathan, 36, as his deputy to take the place of Major General Lucius Clay. Businessmen were quick to...