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First the Government had begun by backtracking. Economic Czar James F. Byrnes had restored to WLB some of the prerogatives taken from it in the President's hold-the-line order of April 8. The Board thus reacquired power to correct "gross inequities" in wages and to make wage...
The reversal represented no change in the views of the eight Justices who participated in both decisions. The same four (Roberts, Reed, Frankfurter, Jackson) were still for restraining the Witnesses. The same four (Stone, Black, Douglas, Murphy) were still for the Bill of Rights. The replacement of ex-Justice Jimmy...
No Steering Gear. Both moves were taken with the full blessings of President Roosevelt, Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, and Price Czar Prentiss M. Brown. Both were aimed to head off John Lewis' continued demand for a $2 a day raise for his miners, and to quiet the rumbles...
The week's onslaught on Nelson added up almost to an indictment. Congress was weary of the fumbling. The Senate planned soon to pass the Maloney bill, which would strip Nelson of about half his powers, those over civilian supply, and turn them over to a new agency directly...
Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes, smooth, compromising, politically wise, also from the South. His only liability: he was once a Catholic, though now a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.