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...last week Chester Bliss Bowles picked up his office telephone and heard the voice of a farm-bloc Senator: "Damn it, Chet, everyone else is getting his cut. You've got to give the farmer...
...Hulking Chet Bowles leaned back in his chair and listened patiently. Then, calmly, like a teacher going over a lesson with a backward pupil, he replied: "But, Senator, you know the farmer is doing all right. When have farm markets been so good? Or prices so high? Or mortgages...
...Chet Bowles, hoping to bring things to a head, laid his resignation on the President's desk. Harry Truman had to face it. Reports were that he decided to cut Snyder down a little, lift Bowles to a bigger, better job, settle the steel strike with a price increase of around $5 a ton, give Bowles full authority to hold the line in the future. Another report: Paul Porter, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) and genial Kentuckian who is now chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, would succeed Chet Bowles as administrator...
Prices were going higher; Chet Bowles would have to move up the beach. But there, unless Congress actually did refuse to renew his price controls when they expire June 30, he could wrap his robe about him and make another stand...
John Snyder obviously meant his parable for his old adversary on price control, Price Boss Chester Bowles. For last week while Chet Bowles fought mightily to hold back the rising tide of prices, the hem of his bathrobe was already...