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Without these clearances, the bigwigs gloomily predicted that the first cars may not roll out till as late as nine months after V-E day. Added G.M.'s Wilson: Home Front Tsar Jimmy Byrnes must have "misunderstood" the problem when he blithely predicted cars within three months after Germany...
The bill provides for an Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, in effect a watered-down version of the job now held by Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes-who has said he will resign when the demobilization machinery is set up. The new $15,000-a-year Reconversion boss, appointed...
Perturbed, the skittery Congress last week passed a surplus property bill which clipped Mr. Clayton's power (see above). Where he ruled alone, a three-man board will henceforth dispose of the estimated $100 billion in surplus war goods. Previously, Clayton had informed Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes that...
Will Clayton was not alone in this view: Jimmy Byrnes was dead-set against the three-man board, and Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch had personally phoned Congressmen, begging them to drop it. Georgia's Senator Walter George called the bill almost impossible to administer. New York's bell...
Both the New York Times's well-informed Arthur Krock and the New York Sun's frankly GOPartisan George Van Slyke insisted last week that the phrase had a solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the...