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New Diplomat. The scramble for Hull's job was short, eager and one-sided. The biggest and fastest boom billowed up for OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes. The dopesters had other names, too, especially the three "Ws"-Wallace, Winant and Welles. But most of the dopesters were wrong.
At home, there was ominous news. A new kind of crisis had arisen, not unsolvable, but vexsome. The torrent of war supplies was thinning, partly because of titanic quantities chewed up by the war machine, partly because of manpower shortages in the plants. War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes warned the U.S...
If any dramatic, lightning-bolt personnel changes should strike the Administration in the next few weeks, most of Washington would be vastly surprised. Term IV orators had campaigned strenuously on the theme of keeping a war-winning "team" in office. And continuity remained the New Deal keynote. The Old Faces...
Then, figuratively, he took off his Commander in Chief hat and put on the old campaign hat he really loves. Tom Dewey had charged that the Administration planned to keep the boys in uniform because the New Deal is "afraid of the peace." By now, said Candidate Roosevelt, the Murray...
If Winter Comes. The cold rains had stopped and the autumn sun was shining on Paris when General George C. Marshall, War Mobilization Director Jimmy Byrnes and their party stepped put of an Army C-54 transport which had flown nonstop from the U.S. They were met by Generals Eisenhower...