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...CJ Loud criticism of the Allied war strategy (in 1943 he wanted emphasis shifted to the Pacific, said he was "unable to agree" with Winston Churchill). ¶ A bulldoggish attitude about Army promotions ("I'm not going to just rubber-stamp everything they bring up"). ¶ A miniature political tempest when a rival in the 1942 campaign charged that a Louisville contractor had built a swimming pool in his backyard as a gift. (Happy was cleared...
...Francis Biddle, Attorney General, would probably leave the Cabinet soon. Best possibility: Hugh Fulton. CJ Frank C. Walker. Postmaster General, was also expected to leave; he had held his post during the past year only at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt. This would be a likely job for big Bob (Robert E.) Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee; it is a common resting place for national chairmen...
...Tribune, the flatly conservative dean of U.S. newspaper art critics, offered Cincinnati a charming, flowing figure-piece: Jon Corbino's The Family. Connoisseur Cortissoz, erstwhile art crony of the J. P. Morgans, father & son, will tolerate no such modernistic nonsense as distorted proportions and experiments with the abstract. CJ Calm, fortyish Dorothy Adlow of the Christian Science Monitor picked a gaunt, naked vision, Ezekiel, a Biblical allegory (Ezekiel 37:3-Son of man, can these bones live?), by 29-year-old Bostonian Nathaniel Jacobson...
...Discrimination against Western agriculture and industry by charging higher freight rates than Eastern railroads. CJ Collusive effort to strangle the development of pipelines, highways, waterways and air lines...
...electric clothes dryer. CJ Ceramic stoves in any desired color...