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James Francis Byrnes to the Supreme Court in June 1941 he remarked that he wished he were Solomon: he would like to cut Jimmy Byrnes in two, put half of him on the Court, leave half in the Senate, where Jimmy had been a super-politician, a knowing, super-successful...
In the Left Wing. In the three months that Jimmy Byrnes has functioned as the U.S. economic czar of World War II, the U.S. people have heard but little more of him than when he operated within the cloistered walls of the highest court. Every morning, shortly before 9 o...
Jimmy hardly moves from this room all day. Like his boss at the other end of the White House, he has lunch at his desk at 1 o'clock. He talks frequently with the President by telephone, sees him two or three times a week. Most of his day...
¶ Economic Stabilizer James Byrnes conferred with Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Transportation Director Eastman. Immediate result: none. His warning: "No hope for any lessening of the restrictions upon the use of fuel oil."
> Turned over to Economic Czar James F. Byrnes the Presidential power to arbitrate disputes between Food Czar Claude R. Wickard and any agencies that might get in his way.