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Should Congress modernize itself? Scholars have written long studies surveying Congress' antiquated machinery; from time to time Congressmen themselves have introduced bills designed to oil a creaky cogwheel here or there. FORTUNE initiated wide public discussion of the subject in 1943. A plan for the revamping of Congress was...
It was a solemn meeting of the nation's wartime leaders. The President was flanked by General George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Home Front Czar James Byrnes. Top men of the House and Senate military affairs committees had been called in to listen. At that meeting, held at...
He urged the President to establish the Office of War Mobilization, and helped persuade Jimmy Byrnes to step down from the Supreme Court and take the job. He lost one fight: he wanted a National Service Act right after Pearl Harbor. But the President vetoed the idea, on the grounds...
Caught in the middle of this spite war, like an innocent bystander, was mild Ben Cohen, almost the only early New Dealer left in Washington, and for the past two years chief counsel for War Mobilizer Byrnes. Having done much of the spade work on Dumbarton Oaks, able legalist Ben...
For three years the Administration had juggled the nation's manpower, substituting makeshifts for direct action. Reflecting on the legal machinery available, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes philosophized: "When you can't ride a horse, ride a mule; if you can't ride a mule, ride a...