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...wispy-haired, squinty Lewis Williams Douglas, 47, onetime Arizona Congressman, onetime Budget Director. Lewis Douglas quit in protest against New Deal spending policies, became president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, was a leading Democrat-for-Willkie in 1940. Last month he and President Roosevelt buried the hatchet, and Douglas went back as assistant Lend-Lease expediter. His new job will be all-important: to work closely with the Board of Economic Warfare, decide what ships should carry what materials where...
Secretary Morgenthau, still looking shyly at his hatchet, admitted that "possible inequities" inherent in his proposal would have to be ironed out. Washington observers still expected that Congress, holding its nose as usual, would tie the usual rock to the Secretary's proposal. No one doubted that Mr. Morgenthau, with his incorrigible coupon-clipping conception of economics, would bring his little hatchet out again...
Unlike most Presidential hatchet men, Kelly has no interest in policy. All he wants from the President is patronage. He is not in politics for moral reasons, would deliver the vote for cannibalism if he thought cannibalism would win. And the President listens to him, because he knows that when Kelly advocates a policy Kelly is thinking of votes, not the public good -he is not a biased barometer of public sentiment...
Henry Morgenthau, who always had hoped to balance the budget, last week buried the ideological hatchet with ex-Spender Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who had long since started preaching deflation...
...from President Roosevelt calling on teachers to "do their full share in the struggle to preserve democracy. . . ." The other gathering heartily seconded these motions, displayed a big red V seven feet high. The two groups agreed on everything except one point: a proposal by the leftists to bury the hatchet. The Federation was not to be appeased...