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War Mobilizer James Francis Byrnes, one of the few men in history who has held a high post in all three branches of the U.S. Government, resigned this week. He had said last summer that he would quit on V-E day. In his letter of resignation to Franklin Roosevelt...
But Jimmy Byrnes had more news than his own resignation. Just two days before, he had issued his second annual report, which contained some real news for civilians.
President Roosevelt quickly took a stand-he wanted the curfew observed everywhere. And though Jimmy Byrnes had all but admitted that the Government had no way of enforcing his order, the War Department put teeth in it by proclaiming a midnight curfew for soldiers.
3) The Home-Fronters (War Food's Marvin Jones, Jimmy Byrnes, et al.) thought that any cut in soldier food or further heavy cuts in civilian supplies would be politically impossible and might hurt the war effort by cracking civilian morale.
Last week Davis, many times a matchmaker but never a bride in newspaper mergers, for the first time bought two papers for himself. As Davis deals go, these were small: he took over the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald and Journal, in Jimmy Byrnes's home town, for $750,000. But...