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...Returning from three weeks in Europe, Maury Maverick demanded a law to outlaw the participation of U.S. firms in international cartels. Almost in the same breath he suggested that "selling pools" be formed to permit smaller firms to engage in the export business...
...reason. In addition to purely social duties, the King's representatives in the Provinces have one important function. They can refuse to assent to provincial legislation they believe to be unconstitutional and submit it to the Federal authorities for approval or disallowance. When Alberta's late maverick Premier "Bible Bill" Aberhart went off the legal reservation, the Lieutenant Governor held up some of his wild-eyed measures...
...stolid Don Nelson, and bouncy Maury Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corp., are in a minority. They argue that idle U.S. machinery and men should be free to use the mountains of surplus aluminum. (Fortnight ago the Aluminum Association stated that curtail ments in aluminum for war materials now exceed the total amount of aluminum used by the country annually before the war.) Last week SWPC estimated that two and a half million tons of steel in odd lots, shapes and sizes could be turned over to small manufacturers who have no war contracts...
What Nelson, Maverick & Co. were striving for was a gradual adjustment from war to peace with a minimum lag in employment for labor, and minimum chaos and financial loss to manufacturers...
Aligned solidly against Messrs. Nelson, Maverick et al. stand the Army & Navy, the able WPB vice chairman, Charles E. Wilson, and a powerful majority group of WPB lieutenants...