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...hope of the Administration, as Lew Schwellenbach tried to pull his Labor Department together, rested on the labor-management conference due to convene in Washington Nov. 5. Politicos devoutly hoped that the big confab might have a formula for peace before the entire automobile industry could be struck. But it looked as though Harry Truman was operating on a split-second timetable. His luck would have to be good to head off a complete shutdown in Detroit...
...arch Aiken, the Virginia playboy, who spent a vigilant week-end watching and waiting for Humph Bogart and Lauren Bacall to check in at the Gotham, Arch's big-town hang-out. His patience was not rewarded and friend Aiken had ot settle with a train ride confab with his fellow UVA man, T. B. Perry, 3rd. Old Neil Summers carrot-thatched New Yorker, found the rails a little too boresome and took to the air this week. The result was near disaster, but "Corney" promises better results in the future...
Washington was full of rumors of what Harold Ickes said to Sidney Hillman, what the President told Claude Pepper, and the earnest confab between Jimmy Byrnes and Frank Walker at a Cabinet
This week Mrs. Stassen's mother and sister moved in with the Governor's wife and two children. There was a final testimonial dinner, a last confab with G.O.P. leaders. Then Ed Thye took the oath as Governor. His platform: continue the Stassen administration...
...turn aircraftmaker. Andrew Jackson Higgins announced that, although the Maritime Commission had just closed his huge New Orleans shipyard for lack of steel, the yard would be reopened to construct flying boats. Higgins had just talked with Kaiser, will soon meet him in Washington for a three-way confab with President Roosevelt. When & if Kaiser and Higgins (and maybe others) turn out flying boats as fast as they say they can, the United Nations might begin...