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...Director of Purchases is a middle-roader. His views are his own. One day last fortnight, impatient of connivance, disgusted with the struggle for power in Washington, Donald Nelson announced his resignation as of May 1. Few days later he turned up at the White House. Last week the OPM consolidated control of purchases under him, increasing his direct power over all buying and giving him absolute power over all purchases of $500,000 or more. No more resignation talk was heard; if Nelson leaves on May 1, the reason will be that his job as buyer is substantially over...
...bomb. The bomber: John L. Lewis' general counsel and right-hand man, onetime Wall Street law cub, later New Dealer, now widely suspected of being a Communist fellow traveler, Lee Pressman. In his cold, incisive way, staring straight across the banquet table at middle-of-the-roader Lubin, Pressman told the New Deal (and, incidentally, John Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share of mounting defense profits too. His explanation of the recent...
...Traitors!" What made the 534-to-0 Chamber vote additionally significant was that it came last week after Middle-of-the-Roader Edouard Daladier had taken overt steps presaging a French diplomatic break with the Soviet Union. Some 100 Paris police swooped down to raid the Soviet Trade Delegation, broke open its safes and files, seized incriminating papers. When Soviet Ambassador Jacob Suritz angrily protested, demanding release of several arrested Soviet clerks, his demand was flatly rejected. Home from Moscow to Paris, ostensibly on sick leave, hustled French Ambassador Paul Emile Naggiar. With the certainty that Great Britain and France...
...having embarked on a pay-as-you-go policy. The opposite school holds that cities are foolish to pass up the opportunity to make permanent improvements when money is cheap, and especially when Harold Ickes' PWA will give 'outright 45% of the money. Leading middle-of-the-roader is New York City's little Fiorello H. LaGuardia. who is financing Relief expenditures through an emergency sales tax, lately turned down a proffered PWA $2,700,000. explaining that he found it cheaper to finance necessary improvements privately. Last week Dun & Bradstreet's Frederick Bird gave municipal...
...Guard which mostly originated in big cities. All three had lined up against Richard Whitney in his famed 1934 fight to stop the law creating SEC. All three had helped force Dick Whitney out of the presidency to make way for Charles Gay, a middle-of-the-roader with a vague repute for being "New Deal." Soon after Douglas became SEC chairman, Shields and Pierce called on him in Washington, suggested reorganization of the Exchange...