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Washington was full of rumors of what Harold Ickes said to Sidney Hillman, what the President told Claude Pepper, and the earnest confab between Jimmy Byrnes and Frank Walker at a Cabinet
As for the rest, there was Missouri's Senator Harry Truman (who might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC...
This is the problem that has split the top policymakers. Last week the deadlock seemed absolute. Aluminum, the key to the problem at the moment, will remain unavailable for civilian goods as long as the Services are convinced that its release will interfere with war production. In effect, the reconversion...
Already, said Jimmy Byrnes, the Army and the WPB have estimated exactly how much war production can be cut when Germany collapses. Soon the Army will send out instructions which will automatically go into effect on X-day. Mindful of the upcoming political conventions, he said: "To recess without action...
Adventure in Adversity. Then from Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch came the weightiest warning of all. In a letter to Jimmy Byrnes, Mr. Baruch whacked WPB as well as Congress for delay in putting into effect the Baruch demobilization plan (TIME, Feb. 28). Said the letter: "The nation is still months...