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After three weeks of the midnight curfew on the home front, one fact was well established: Jimmy Byrnes's remedy was worse than whatever disease it was supposed to cure.
If Jimmy Byrnes, as many suspected, was trying (perhaps at Army suggestion) to get at the conscience of the U.S. people and make them realize that they still face a stern war, he had indeed found the conscience. Municipal officials, jumping in to enforce the order, found general, if wondering...
By this, week, New York City's flamboyant, hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, who had jumped enthusiastically into enforcement of the Jimmy Byrnes "request," decided it was time to try something else. He announced that New York City's closing hour would be extended to 1 a.m.
Home-Front Conscience. The man who may well have a deciding vote on reconversion is Major General Lucius du Bignon Clay, 47, the bushy-browed Grey Eminence of Jimmy Byrnes's office. A West Pointer, General Clay was one of the Army's top engineers when World War...
Service Forces, he soon became its prize troubleshooter. Example: when the Army's supply lines kinked at Cherbourg, Clay crossed the Atlantic to unkink them. In one day he doubled the supplies shipped to the front, quintupled them before he left. In the production "crisis" last December, the White...