Word: byrneses
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As the week rushed by with still no definite word from the White House, Vice Presidential boomlets blossomed all over the country. At least 15 men were being talked about and worked for. The President's own list of men acceptable to him, in order of preference, was: 1...
In the pros & cons Jimmy Byrnes seemed to have the most pros, if he really wanted the nomination. Most of the party could agree on him, except for his one political handicap-he is no longer a member of the Catholic Church into which he was born. No one could...
To break the deadlock, home-front Czar Jimmy Byrnes intervened last week-and it was on Jimmy that Don Nelson did his selling job over the telephone. The Services had argued that manpower was already short in war industries. Peace-goods production would drive even more workers to the security...
Over the phone, Don Nelson persuaded Byrnes that idle workers could not be forced into areas where manpower was short. Such jobs, he insisted, are in the low-paid, hardworking, bad-working-condition industries.
Pots & Pans. Jimmy Byrnes agreed, Nelson won, the first of the peace directives was issued. (Three others will come by Aug. 15. They will release machinery and equipment, allow the development of postwar models and approve civilian production when manpower and materials are available.) Under Nelson order No. 1, manufacturers...