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...York's trustbusting Democrat, Representative Emanuel Celler, buttonholed Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson at a dinner party one evening. The U.S. needed more aluminum, said Celler, and wasn't getting it fast enough. Who, he demanded, was to blame? Charlie Wilson answered frankly: if any one man was to blame, it was Manny Celler...
...only her own infantrymen (who have been using the bolt-action, single-shot .303-cal. Lee-Enfield since the South African War), but all the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Disagreement over it caused a hitch at the recent small-arms conference in Washington, where Britain's Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell argued...
Died. E. (for Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius, 62, publisher of the famed, cut-rate (icy) "Little Blue Books"; by accidental drowning; in Girard, Kans. An outspoken socialist, agnostic and advocate of companionate marriage, in 32 years he sold more than 300 million copies of his books, ranging from Essence of the Bible to The Art of Kissing, made a small fortune, but failed to report $75,000 of it, was appealing a six-month jail sentence for income-tax evasion when he died...
...when he was elected vice president of finance and revenue in 1949. LIEUT. GENERAL ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, 54, retiring commander of the U.S. Sixth Army and a leading witness at the MacArthur hearings (TIME, June 25), was elected vice president of Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp. (Crosley Radio, Bendix Home Appliances and six other companies...
...businessmen who took paid leave from their jobs to work for the Government in World Wars I and II were called dollar-a-year men. This time they are called WOCs-for "without compensation." When Emanuel Celler's House subcommittee announced recently that it was going to check up on Washington's WOCs, it got a mysterious tip. The Congressmen, said the tipster, should look into some of the steel allocations made by the National Production Authority...