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...light of her imminent retirement, political pundits began to reappraise the career of this small, plumpish woman who, in her unfashionable tricorn hat, has long bustled in & out of Administration councils. Most surprising opinion came from the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-New Deal Columnist Frank Kent. He wrote: "Far from being the worst Secretary of Labor we have had, good argument can be made that Miss Perkins is the best...
...Bennett. Henry Ford kept mum on who will replace Sorensen. Likeliest prospect: plumpish, soft-speaking Ray R. Rausch, 49, Ford director, production boss of the Rouge, and favorite of Harry Bennett. Just how well Rausch will measure up to Sorensen, productionwise, is a question that reconversion will probably answer. But with Sorensen out, there is no one in the empire now-outside of Henry and Henry II, Ford vice president-to challenge the absolute power of the one-time sailor, boxer and Ford bodyguard, Harry Bennett...
Died. Frederick Van Nuys, 69, Democratic (Ind.) chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; of a heart attack; in Vienna, Va. During his eleven years as a Senator the short, plumpish anti-New Dealer had sponsored an anti-lynching bill, opposed Supreme Court revamping and the Third Term. His successor will be Samuel Dillon Jackson...
Last week, weather-beaten, rawboned ranchers and plumpish, pale-faced fur buyers jampacked a downtown Manhattan show room to find the answer at the first auction of the new fur. After two tense hours, the answer was in. The new fur (trade name "Silverblu" platinum) had edged out Russian sable to become, for the nonce, the rarest, highest-priced fur in the world. The 2,500 pelts at auction had sold for $375,000. Cost of a silverblu coat...
...Plumpish, diplomatic Ray R. Rausch, 49, most affable, best-liked of all top Ford men, now boss of the sprawling Rouge plant. Rausch came to Ford from Timken-Detroit Axle Co. in 1921, to run engineering, tool design and construction, later headed the important salvage department, was elevated to Rouge boss in 1933. A quick and practical improviser, Rausch often steps out of Rouge to solve problems in other parts of the empire. As a production man, he is second only to tall, handsome Charles E. Sorensen. When a shortage of fabricated steel threatened to halt Willow Run construction, Rausch...