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...Asked the Advisory Board of the OWMR to undertake a study of the annual wage. The committee promptly got to work. The study will be directed by U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston...
Next day, OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes suddenly reappeared in Washington, having made the 6,700-mile trip from Yalta in 38 hours. Without wasting a minute, he called a press conference. It appeared that Jimmy Byrnes's role was to be the official interpreter of the Crimea Charter to the U.S. people and the Congress...
...Admirals King and Leahy, Vice Admiral Land of the Maritime Commission, and Major General Laurence S. Kuter, assistant chief of the Air Staff, pinch-hitting for General Arnold, who is abed in Washington with virus pneumonia. For the diplomatic conferences, U.S. representatives included Secretary of State Stettinius, Harry Hopkins, OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes, Ambassador Harriman, and a host of State Department experts...
...Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav MIolotov; Marshal Stalin; Ivan Maisky, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs; Andrei Gromyko, Russian Ambassador to the U.S.; Admiral William D. Leahy; Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr.; President Roosevelt; Charles E. Bohlen, Chief of State Department Division of Eastern European Affairs; James F. Byrnes, OWMR Chief; unidentified; Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister; Prime Minister Churchill; two unidentified; Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia...
...OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes suddenly ordered all horse and dog tracks (horse tracks alone handled a record-breaking $1,126,308,645 in pari-mutuel receipts this year) to shut up tight by January 3 and remain shut "until war conditions permit." He also threw a blunt question at Selective Service: what about all those 4-F professional athletes between the ages of 18 and 26? "They proved to thousands by their great physical feats upon the football or baseball field that they are as physically fit ... as are the 11,000,000 men in uniform...