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...Congressional committee gnawing over the U.S. shortage of doctors called as witnesses both Dr. Morris Fishbein, American Medical Association bigwig, and mountain-moving Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, who in the name of wartime efficiency is providing his tens of thousands of employes with medical attention at a fixed fee of 50? a week. The two did not clash directly but when Fishbein said priorities made the building of new hospitals impossible, Kaiser snorted: "We are doing it." Said Dr. Fishbein blandly: "You are a very strong man, Mr. Kaiser." Before the hearing was over the strong-minded duo had given...
...candidate who did not know what to do was New Jersey's Hague-owned Senator William H. Smathers. Hearing of the sober, dead-serious campaign waged by Republican Albert W. Hawkes (industrialist and onetime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce), he hurried home, only to find Hawkes effectively belaboring him for previous absences from the Senate when important measures were at stake (Selective Service Act and its extension, declaration of war against Germany). Bill Smathers hightailed it back to Washington, then nervously returned to New Jersey for another look...
...close to agreement on national government with his old political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla, said that he believed Gandhi would agree to allow Jinnah to form his own government...
Businessman Politician. New Jersey's Republicans had their closest primary ever. By noon next day Albert Wahl Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, knew that his party had chosen him for U.S. Senator over New Jersey State Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson. Of his flyer in politics, Industrialist Hawkes says he hopes the voters will think: "Here's a fellow going on 64. Certainly he isn't trying to become a political boss." Albert Hawkes's interests lie in the field of labor relations (he resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter...
Returning from India, U.S. Industrialist Henry Francis Grady revealed last week that U.S. experts had thoroughly canvassed India's possibilities as a strategic military bastion and a source of materiel. Wherever he went Grady heard the old complaint that war production was hampered by Britain's protection of her own interests and by the apathy of labor and industry. The full Grady report was not released, but its recommendation that U.S. engineers and technicians be sent to speed up Indian war production was evidence of the U.S. stake in India and the need for internal stability...