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Grey-haired Chester Davis leaned back in his swivel chair, smiled wryly at reporters. This will certainly be the summer for Chester Davis to do something. Before breakfast he had had a call from Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes. The President had drafted Chester Davis as the nation's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Tenth Czar | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

The crippling decentralization goes even further. Another agency under Prentiss Brown rules farm prices. The only insurance that Davis will be just another electron flying around the nucleus of the OPA is the possibility of his referring disputes to stabilization director Byrnes. Function stands apart from power, for Wickard is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farms and Arms | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

But the dissenters' biggest gripes were reserved for Economic Czar James F. Byrnes. After the Board's vote was announced, Chairman Davis drew out of his pocket a letter from Jimmy Byrnes which said that, since the case had been discussed with him in advance and did not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Notice to John Lewis | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

The manpower problem, basic to almost all national problems, last week was getting the attention it deserved. Frankly worried, Franklin Roosevelt called in five of his top advisers-James F. Byrnes, Bernard M. Baruch, Samuel I. Rosenman, Admiral William D. Leahy, Harry Hopkins. The five quietly grouped themselves around a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Manpower Solution? | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

If by Aug. 15 Byrnes, OPA, et al. have licked the problem of price control, rationed all essential goods & services, put across "a fair tax program" (instead of what the union calls "soak-the-poor taxes"), the electrical workers will take their cost-of-living raise in war bonds. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Heads I Win ... | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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