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...Made known his "deep regret" at the death of ODT Director Joseph B. Eastman...
...quietly as he had moved through 28 years of able public service, Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 61, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, died last week in Washington...
...months, as ODT boss, genial, drawling Joe Eastman had worked a killing 15 hours a day to keep U.S. transportation fluid. As ICC commissioner for 25 years he had labored to master transportation economics. No other man knew the subject so thoroughly. And in politics-ridden Washington he was outstanding as a man who kept his mind...
...Eastman was appointed ODT head over the opposition of critics who held that the depression-blighted railroads were unprepared for war.* They wanted Government control backed with a big stick, and Eastman, they protested, was no big-stick man. But Eastman dumbfounded his critics. He successfully carried an ever-increasing burden without faltering-and so did the railroads...
...Leader's week-to-week special delight is the exposure of Communists and Communist policy in liberal organizations, unions and government agencies. In the anniversary edition a list by Max Eastman of liberals who have sacrificed ''moral character" by kowtowing to Russian totalitarianism includes Max Lerner of Manhattan's tabloid PM, Paul Robeson, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Parker and Editor Freda Kirchwey of the liberal weekly Nation...