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Cutback Jitters. But Donald Nelson won a victory of his own. This week his plan to resume limited civilian output went into effect, even though opposed by the Army & Navy, and delayed five weeks by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes. It will mean only a trickle of goods, but it was...
Three days later, War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes published a long, dramatic statement, arguing: "We have the enemy on the ropes; he is dazed and his knees are buckling." Then he ordered a pip-squeak move: to place ceilings on employment in all nonessential industries, hoping thereby to send 200,000...
Scene I: Washington. At that White House meeting were present the Democratic National Chairman, strapping Bob Hannegan, Chicago's Boss and Mayor, Ed Kelly, and four others. The visitors had political business with the President; they wanted to name over the various Vice Presidential possibilities : Henry Wal lace, Truman...
Consequently, four days before the convention opened the race seemed wide-open, and the one-day booms blossomed in methodical order: for Barkley, Douglas, Byrnes and Speaker Sam Ray burn. The Byrnes boom got farthest first and then fell flattest. The first of many intimate and important dinners in Chicago...
Scene II: the Blackstone. To Bob Hannegan's three-room suite in the venerable old Blackstone Hotel, two nights before the convention, went P.A.C.'s Chair man Sidney Hillman and C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Also present: Postmaster General Frank Walker. Mincing no words, Messrs. Hillman & Murray told Bob...