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When Harry Truman nominated his friend and adviser, George Allen, to a directorship of the giant Reconstruction Finance Corp. last January, a suspicious Senate Committee prepared to give roly-poly George the piercing eye. But Washington-wise Jester Allen gagged away their suspicions that he was too light for the...
From Germany, and in the Army's custody, a couple of almost forgotten ex-newspapermen arrived in Washington, D.C. : for wartime broadcasts from Berlin, roly-poly Robert H. Best and hawklike Douglas Chandler were finally to be tried for treason.*
With each stroke of the hammer Wyatt hit his own thumb. He quarreled with other agencies, ran afoul of the powerful real estate lobby. Congress had backed down on price ceilings, had failed to enact the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill for low-cost housing. Wyatt went overboard for prefabricated homes...
The middle weights are pretty well dominated by returning members of last winter's team, but Boston and Assistant Coach jay Thomas emphasize that no position on the team is definitely filled. At the 145-pound class former Kent captain and a member of the two previous Crimson teams, Frank...
Boss Wyatt was the one who put the pot on the fire. He wanted RFC to lend up to $90,000,000 to eleven companies, some of which had never built houses, to build prefabricated houses and housing parts. Biggest loan would go to Chicago's Lustron Corp., along...