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...with the keys to the cupboard is handsome, hard-driving W. Stuart Symington, 49, who resigned as Secretary of the Air Force last spring to take over the chairmanship of the National Security Resources Board (composed of seven Cabinet members and himself). In Stu Symington's keeping is the latest draft of an Emergency War Powers bill which, if approved by NSRB and enacted by Congress, could stop overnight the manufacture of life-size Hopalong Cassidy dolls and set auto workers to making tanks. It would give the President all the vast powers he had in World...
...London, "Queen Mary's Contribution to the Dollar Drive Committee," under the chairmanship of the Marchioness of Reading, announced that seven bids had been considered (four from the U.S., three from Canada). All but the successful bidders' names and offers were with held. It was said that some bids were a bit on the frivolous side; one woman asked if the carpet could be sent to her on approval...
...both personal and political, worked hardest to collar delegates. Handsome, fast-talking Lawyer J. Kenneth Bradley, out for the nomination for governor, was trying to regain the party control he had o«ce held as Connecticut Republicanism's boy wonder, only to be stripped of his state chairmanship six years ago. On the eighth floor reigned the man he sought to dethrone: big Harold Mitchell, the party head. Mitchell had chosen Lodge as his candidate...
Attlee tried valiantly to repair some of the damage. First, he effectively silenced Dalton, who had been trumpeting his views at press conferences. At week's end, under Dalton's chairmanship, Socialist delegates from nine countries assembled in London to consider...
...Hoover reorganization plans sent up to the Hill by the President, had given Harry Truman a chance to do some reshuffling among his bureaucrats. To his closest non-Missouri political crony, ex-Senator Mon C. Wallgren (once national amateur 18.2 balkline billiards champion), the President gave the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission; he made onetime New York Senator James M. Mead, another old Senate buddy now on the Government payroll, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission...