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Streamliner. An ex-Governor and ex-Senator from Iowa, Clyde LaVerne Herring, will prune deadwood from OPA. Clyde Herring's first chore will be a top-to-bottom survey of OPA. Separate price, rent and rationing control offices may be combined, the eight regional offices may be erased. Clyde Herring will look for ways to consolidate service, eliminate waste...
...with Errand. In a perfect democracy, run without hitch, Truman would never have been returned to the Senate in 1940. A majority of Missouri Democrats, in full revolt against the machine, opposed him in the primary. But Attorney Milligan and ex-Governor Lloyd Crow Stark split the opposition vote, and Truman slipped in with an 8,000-vote plurality. For a nation whose Administration, army and war contractors are not perfect either, it has turned out to be a good thing...
...Last week Jim Farley, who is both New York State Democratic Chairman and board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp., returned to Manhattan from a five-week "business trip." Along the way Jim Farley had a lot of talks with Southern Democratic politicians-John Nance Garner, Alabama's ex-Governor Frank M. Dixon, Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall-which were not about Coca-Cola...
Texas' ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby, jowly, steady-eyed, 66-year-old publisher of the Houston Post, dropped into Manhattan with his much-photographed wife Oveta, head of the WAACs, said he felt the same as he had before she got famous. "Anything she does is all right with me," he declared. "We're all proud of her. She's doing her duty...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who shed nine pounds a week for four weeks to get into active duty as a major, made the grade on his second physical examination, was ordered to report at Colorado's Lowry Field this week...