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Bill Jeffers argued that the necessary parts could be obtained by breaking production bottlenecks, announced he would stick to his program. But the program, said the armed services, had already been outdated by the facts of war; and the Battle of the Atlantic was far from won. The bitter dispute...
Last week three bills patterned after the Ruml plan were introduced in Congress, without waiting for a nod from Morgenthau. There were reports that Economic Czar James F. Byrnes would become Administration tax spokesman. Urbane Senator Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had his own ideas about...
> Made two appointments which were almost unanimously praised: ex-Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan, to succeed Leon Henderson as director of the Office of Price Administration, and Federal Judge Wiley B. Rutledge Jr., to succeed Economic Czar James F. Byrnes as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
In a nation where Government appointments are usually made with an eye to geography, Franklin Roosevelt this week could make a happy choice. To fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Jimmy Byrnes, he named Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr.-who was born in Kentucky, got his A.B. in Wisconsin, taught...
It will be a tough fight, both in & out of Congress. The new Congress is certain to examine closely any Administration proposal; from another angle, its farm bloc is primed for an attack on farm ceiling prices (see p. 77). There will be other difficulties: higher taxation and compulsory savings...