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In his first week as U.S. economic czar of World War II, small, shrewd James F. Byrnes worked smoothly, feverishly-but behind closed doors. He issued a few routine orders. But most of the time he was feeling his way. With his small staff-private secretary, two attorneys, four stenographers...
The People's Tsar. These orders did not bring inflation under control. That still has to be done by the organization created to carry out the orders. To administer the new anti-inflation program, as Director of Economic Stabilization, the President chose shrewd, wiry Jimmy Byrnes, 63, a hale...
Economic Tsar Byrnes is no great master of economics (though he is a longtime friend and follower of Wizard Bernie Baruch), but he is not supposed to be. He will leave administrative details to his new committee: the heads of all the wartime and peacetime agencies which now deal with...
If Jimmy Byrnes can do this, he will have won his final medals as a master politician-and as a wartime official. Said he wryly: "I know it's a tough task. It will require the proper appreciation of the frequent use of the word no. You are bound...
But Jimmy Byrnes did not hesitate to leave the eminence of the Supreme Court, and its $20,000-a-year income for life, for a job that will be one of the meanest in the war effort. He well remembers his humble background: he was born after his father'...