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...surprise ceremony, presented to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as chief of OWMR...
Planner, Inc. The name-Nathan-was familiar. Shortly after V-J day in 1945, Robert R. Nathan & his colleagues in OWMR predicted that there would be 8,000,000 unemployed in the U.S. before spring, 1946. Later he recommended a general wage increase. He said wages could go up without boosting prices. He was wrong in his prediction. There was no noticeable employment slump. And wages went up, but so did prices in a rising spiral of inflation...
...executive order setting it up was flown to Harry Truman's Florida playland last week with OWMR Boss John R. Steelman. When the President signed it, OPA's remaining 34,736 employes (peak, 63,428) and its controls over rent, rice and sugar would be absorbed by the newcomer...
...chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
...Created a twelve-man Presidential Research Board, headed by OWMR Director John R. Steelman, to spur peacetime scientific development...