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...Benefits. Then Jimmy Byrnes came to grips with the question of dismissal pay for war workers. The Administration has pointedly ignored labor's demands for pay to tide over the men suddenly washed out of war jobs. The Baruch-Hancock report (TIME, Feb. 28) had likewise sidestepped the issue. Now Jimmy Byrnes flatly opposed such pay. He objected that "the dismissal wage would bear no exact relation to the needs of the workers. Some who might quickly find new jobs would get more than they needed, while others would get less." He recognized that there is certain...
Down Taxes. Jimmy Byrnes, praising the Baruch-Hancock report, promised U.S. industry that as much of it as possible would be made effective by Presidential order, pending Congressional action. But on the question of taxes, which many a U.S. businessman considers the No. 1 postwar problem, Jimmy Byrnes was vague...
Henry Shapiro, correspondent for the United Press in Moscow, will speak at the oFrd Hall Forum in John Hancock Hall Sunday evening. Shapiro, who just returned from Russia, after distinguishing himself by being the first newspaperman to visit the Stalingrad front, will discuss "The Latest Word from the Russian Front...
...wisdom, which is as platitudinous as most wisdom in that it concentrates on the all-too-often-forgotten obvious things, which are so often the fundamentals. As Clausewitz contributed to military science such statements as "the overthrow of the Enemy [is] the aim of military action," so Messrs. Baruch & Hancock advise the U.S.: "Transition from a war economy to that of peace is not easy; nothing worth-while...
...with every special interest in & out of Government demanding particulars, Messrs. Baruch & Hancock took a cold look at policy problems in general-and drew obvious conclusions. The great service that the report performed for the nation was that it dumped a lot of particular problems into one package and suggested some common-sense ways to lick them before they could lick the nation...