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> Among his closest henchmen, Franklin Roosevelt was forced to concede another casualty: there were reports that unpopular Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. would be replaced, as tax spokesman, by Economic Czar James F. Byrnes.
Masters of Politics. One man who could help the New Deal survive was smooth, shrewd Jimmy Byrnes, the best politician it has outside the President. As economic czar, Jimmy Byrnes's job was to iron out the bickerings in the war administration, to clean out the obvious trouble spots...
But Jimmy Byrnes, who combines his liberalism with hardheaded native conservatism and has friends on both sides of the political railroad tracks, had an unpublicized job that was even bigger. On the home front he was rapidly becoming assistant president, with a clear hand to smooth ruffled party tempers, to...
But rationing is an ex post facto job, and one of Jimmy Byrnes's problems is to cure causes of limited production: Farmers are skimping on expensive protein feeds that a cow needs for top yields. Machinery is rationed or nonexistent. Farm wages are too high for many an...
Nobody likes the subsidies, but more might come. Farmers feel the money is going to the wrong group, the distributors. The distributors want free prices. But OPA sweats at the thought of raising fluid milk prices and upsetting the cost-of-living index. The Department of Agriculture looks appalled when...