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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he was offered the new job, able Ralph Bunche told a friend how he felt about Washington. "Frankly," he said, "it's a Jim Crow town and I wouldn't relish exposing my family to it again...
...Army, Navy and Air Force together under one roof. Some of the Pentagon uneasiness and anger over integration had long since spread to the 1,650,000 men in the nation's vast military establishment. With the coming of Louis Johnson, old Army man and longtime friend of the Air Force, the unseemly feuding broke more openly into public view. There was no doubt of it; the shield of the republic was beginning to show some alarming cracks (see above...
...Evans, longtime Kansas City personal and political friend of Harry Truman. Tall, white-haired Tom Evans lent Truman $5,000 to help finance his 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1948 Evans gave $3,000 himself, raised $100,000 more in the Midwest. He owns Kansas City's station KCMO, is board chairman of Crown Drug Co., a chain with 85 stores in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma...
Jacob Blaustein, 56, a multimillionaire who lives at Pikesville, Md. Blaustein built a fortune in Texas and Pan American oil, is now president of the American Trading & Production Corp. A friend of Franklin Roosevelt, he made surveys of D.P.s in Germany, was vice-chairman of the Petroleum Administration for War Marketing Committee. He is now president...
Welburn Mayock, a down-to-earth, oil-rich Los Angeles lawyer who ran the Truman-Barkley clubs and was general counsel to the National Committee. He gave $4,500. A longtime friend of and attorney for Ed Pauley, Mayock helped scotch Henry Wallace's candidacy at the 1944 convention, served as assistant to then-treasurer Pauley. The President, like most of his friends, calls him "Judge," but it is a misnomer. "I never claimed it wasn't," Mayock explains, "but I got tired of explaining it was a phony myself." He maintains law offices in Washington...