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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, as usual, President Truman was early at his desk. During the rest of the week, he waded through a long list of appointments, met the governors of seven states, agreed with them (they reported) that employment services should be returned to the states...
...full employment bill was on his list of "must" legislation...
...candidate. Navy "radicals" (i.e., proponents of a break from the Navy's tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean, able Arthur W. Radford, 49, who set up naval aviation's excellent wartime training program, later bossed a Pacific carrier group...
...list of men found "safe & well" was Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, hero of Bataan and successor to MacArthur. He was found in a Manchuria prison camp near Mukden...
Deploring the usual shoddy summer substitutes, radio this year talked big-good fun and good music. By last week performance no longer had a chance to catch up with promise, and the list of summertime flops even included Norman Corwin, one of the biggest names in radio drama...