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After two months of hunting, Harry S. Truman was still looking for a man-any man-to be his price stabilizer. The qualifications he set up for the $17,500-a-year job were modest enough. The President stipulated only that the candidate have the "guts" to take...
Henry Wallace stood last week on the cornstalk-decorated stage of the Coliseum in Des Moines to undergo what was a political ordeal for a shy man-to accept the Democratic nomination for Vice President. His unruly hair combed back for a change, his wide features expanding in a boyish grin, he beamed on the crowd in a way that made it unmistakable-it was a great occasion for him. The crowd of 7,000 to 8,000, almost filling the Coliseum, roared back, waved banners WELCOME HOME, HANK and WHO WANTS WINDY WENDELL WILLKIE...
...catastrophes, Lieut. Charles B. Momsen developed a special "lung" life-preserver for submariners (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week at the mouth of the River Thames off New London, Conn., Lieut. Momsen took the salvaged S-4 to the bottom again with a newsreel outfit aboard-director, camera man, sound man-to publicize the success of his device by filming ten seamen escaping to the surface...
...during the morning. Finally, just before I went home to celebrate with my wife, six children and seven grandchildren, who awaited me on Park Avenue, there came a message from my father, William H. Fiske, who has lived- most appropriately, some think, for the father of a life insurance man...
...Administration plan is the plan of the conservative business man-to put the business quickly on a strong financial footing. The opposition plan is a demand for more dividends at once. The Democratic plan will yield a larger tax reduction this year. The Administration plan will make possible larger tax reductions in years to come...