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...Pauley, wanted Jimmy to endorse Pauley's good friend Harry Truman for reelection. Kenny wanted him to endorse Wallace. For a while, Jimmy had managed to say nothing, but now the left was plainly trying to shoot him off the fence...
Hard on the Fresno rally, Chairman Roosevelt heard other shots-from the right. They came from plump, redheaded Tom Scully, well-to-do Los Angeles Democrat and ex-Democratic state treasurer, whom Jimmy had defeated for the state party chairmanship last year. Scully, an old Pauley disciple, had neither forgotten nor forgiven. For a year, Scully and the Pauley organization had sniped at Jimmy Roosevelt. Last week, Scully announced that he had assumed leadership of a Truman-for-President movement in opposition to the nominal party leadership of Chairman Roosevelt...
...embarrass Truman's close friend, California Oilman Ed Pauley (wrote Allen), ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle filed the famed California oil tidelands suit. "Harold Ickes, after failing to get assurance from Truman that he could remain in the Cabinet indefinitely, used the Pauley case as an excuse for quitting in a blaze of righteous indignation...
...Washington, Reparations Representative Ed Pauley prepared a report for President Truman recommending that the U.S. pull up its socks in Korea: as in Germany, there was no point in simply waiting for Russian cooperation on unified control of the country. Japanese reparations to Korea must be sped up, machinery moved into the U.S. zone of Korea and economic aid supplied, so that the whole area will develop into a unit capable of independent government. The U.S., said Pauley, has a clear opportunity and responsibility to demonstrate to Koreans that democracy will work better than Communism...
Some of George's critics thought this was going a bit too far-and they also thought George might never get the job. In almost the same breath, Harry Truman had nominated three other cronies-Jake Vardaman, Stu Symington and Ed Pauley-for top Government jobs, and the public howled. Ed Pauley subsequently had to withdraw after some dissection by a Senate committee; but George, as usual, was equal to the occasion...