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This week in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention was told the official score to date on the aircraft industry's efforts in national defense, and its plans for future production. The speaker, Colonel John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, and a West Pointer, knew what he was talking about. Excerpts...
...traveled with him scores of thousands of miles. Piped aboard the Tuscaloosa, he posed for the usual pictures, standing at the rail; soon tired, he rested in a chair, bundled against the damp, cold day. Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by. Ten minutes after the 21st salute-gun had boomed, the three warships slipped out into the Gulf of Mexico. As shipmates the President took no politicians, no bigwigs, no intimate advisers, but three men who were once described at the White House as "the only three fellows around...
...factories. Last week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian schools were turning them out by the hundreds. Black-browed West Pointer president Jack Jouett of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who knows the capabilities of U. S. Aircraft factories as well as he knows where to find the throttle in any military airplane, calculated that within six months the industry could step up its production to 1,000 planes a month...
Hearing that Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley, GOP Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Liberty Leaguer Jouett Shouse, Stiff-necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...
Newshawks last week made the kind of minor political discovery which delights them: the daughter of vehemently anti-New Deal Jouett (Liberty League) Shouse working for WPA. Not on work relief, serious-looking Elizabeth Shouse, 26, was hired last month as an expert to supervise the work of 14 WPAsters repairing school books in the District of Columbia. Pay: $136 a month. Said Miss Shouse with obvious truth: "No political pull was involved...