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Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, stung into action, promptly demanded that all Government agencies concerned in the jumble tell him what was wrong, how it could be corrected. The U.S. hoped he could untangle the threads. Citizens hardly needed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's plea to accept rationing as a...
The railroads and their prosperous revenues are caught in a cross fire. Last week OPA, acting for Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes and the Department of Agriculture, petitioned the ICC to cancel the 6% freight-and 10% passenger-rate increases granted last spring. In Chicago this week the five operating...
Yet Jimmy Byrnes was the eternal right-hand man: where was the future leader whom he could serve as good right hand? On all the New Deal horizon there seemed to be just one man who had the qualifications: Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
Canny, angry Bill Douglas proved his executive ability and his crusading fervor as head of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Even from the austerity of the Supreme Court he casts such a personal spell that politicians of both parties struggle to be seen with him when he goes back to the...
Yet last week Bill Douglas had not yet been called in for consultation. On the bench he was politically immobilized; thus far he had rejected all overtures to move into a war job that would put him back in the political arena. The Douglas cure looked like a long-term...