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Jimmy Byrnes was desperate. In a radio fight talk he cajoled, warned, reproved, threatened and begged the U.S. to hold the line against inflation. Finally, in peroration, the Assistant President got off the year's most inept quotation. Picturing labor groups which threaten to strike if they don'...
By spring of this year the manpower shortage was everywhere: a half-dozen Congressional committees were howling, the War Manpower Commission listed 36 acute labor areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt called on his top drawer-Messrs. Byrnes, Leahy, Baruch, Hopkins and Rosenman-for an answer to the new problem. There came...
Assistant President. About 10 a.m. the President is wheeled over to his office. There, first thing, he attacks the mountains of mail and documents piled up in his workbaskets. He reads with page-at-a-glance rapidity. But part of his speed in getting through his paper work results from...
Museum of Presidents. One day early in 1942 nervous Henry Morgenthau decided that the White House should have a bomb shelter. The President agreed, but added a revealing addendum. New offices were also needed. While the construction work was going on, he proposed, why not look ahead and prepare the...
To Don Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie...