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Home-Front Politics. By last month these long-neglected facts had aroused the U.S. Congress. Balding, shrewd Senator Francis T. Maloney (D., Conn.) began hearings before the Banking & Currency Committee on a bill to establish a Civilian Supply Administration responsible only to Assistant President James Francis Byrnes. That would place the civilian on an equal shouting basis with the Army, Navy, et al., when the U.S. supply pie is sliced...
...bill would also reduce Donald Nelson to a figurehead, since he has delegated war production to Charles Wilson. Result: last fortnight Don Nelson passionately opposed the Maloney bill before the Senate Committee; last week he appointed his new vice chairman in charge of the home front...
...Senator Maloney still felt that the Balkanization of Washington war agencies had gone too far; that the home front would never get an adequate hearing within WPB. So did New York's New Dealing Senator Robert Wagner, chairman of the Banking & Currency Committee...
...Maloney stood pat on his bill. Close-cropped, 60-year-old Arthur Whiteside, veteran of many an earlier Washington war (he was with World War I's War Industries Board, NRA and 0PM), prepared to move to the capital again. The U.S. civilian, for the moment, was getting almost too much attention...
Chief Justice Stone, who wrote this week's five-to-two* decision, sharply scolded the prosecuting attorney for his conduct during Viereck's trial. Said Stone: "In his closing remarks to the jury he (William Power Maloney, Special Assistant to the Attorney General) indulged in an appeal wholly irrelevant to any facts or issues in the case, the purpose and effect of which could only have been to arouse passion and prejudice. The United States Attorney . . . is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall...