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President Roosevelt gave one of the toughest of all Washington jobs to a Utahan last week. Pink-cheeked, balding, urbane Robert Henry Hinckley, 53, a onetime Mormon missionary and small-town schoolteacher, was appointed Director of Contract Settlement...
...Hinckley, a favorite of Harry Hopkins, will be the man who says how, when and in what order the great mass of war contracts will be settled, as the war ends...
Contract settlement will be one long cat-&-dog fight, and Bob Hinckley knows it. To avoid trouble, he will aim for speed, fairness and uniformity. Soothing irate industrialists who feel that their competitors may take off too far ahead of them will require a maximum of astute diplomacy. "It's staggering to look at," Hinckley said, "but I believe it can be done...
Mightily pleased was bald, businesslike Robert H. Hinckley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, who had kindled this fire. Cried Hinckley: "History has faced us with the plain alternative: Fly-or die! The entire nation must become air-conditioned. . . . We shall be thoroughly air-conditioned when we are not startled by the proposal that school children visit the Arctic by transport plane to study Eskimos in their native habitat...
Junior Varsity: Fitz bow, Wilson 2, A. Whitman 3, Erskine 4, Herter 5, Prince 6, Hinckley 1, Wagner stroke, Palmer...