Word: czars
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Jimmy Byrnes. The President also set up a new joint Army & Navy production-survey committee, which henceforth will take all major military and production-supply problems directly to Jimmy Byrnes, Czar of the Office of War Mobilization. This meant: 1) a new further bypassing of WPB's ineffective boss Donald M. Nelson, who was speechmaking last week in London; 2) confirmation of Byrnes as the final authority on keying war production to civilian economy...
This made snow-haired Leo Crowley (ten years ago a relatively obscure Wisconsin businessman) the czar of all foreign economic dealings, which are the guts of foreign relations. Significantly Crowley will work with the State Department, but answers only to the President...
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, after much pondering and consultation in his office (see cut), five weeks ago submitted a report to Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...
Those who insisted that the report was as significant as the famed Baruch rubber report exaggerated. Baruch, assisted by Byrnes's consultant John Hancock, had not intended to make an overall manpower study. At Czar Jimmy's request, he had sat down with aircraft makers* on the bench in Washington's Lafayette Park, and there had worked out a plan to avert a disastrous slump in West Coast airplane production. His recommendations, to set up a labor budget and balance West Coast manpower with production by funneling workers into essential plants, have already been put into effect...
...West Coast Plan. Last week Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes clamped the Buffalo plan - with modifications -onto five West Coast areas: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Portland. There the manpower shortage has forced a slow scaling down of U.S. plane production goals, and threatens to knock them on the head in 1944 - despite occasional optimistic WPB estimates...