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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who is a stickler for accuracy and integrity, was in an unwanted public row last week. His opponent was ex-Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace. The row was vital: it brought U.S. atomic policy into sharp debate, and it cast some highly interesting light on the character of Henry Wallace...
Amid the titanic weariness of delegates, the 21-nation Paris Peace Conference headed into its final week. In a slogging windup of committee work (before sending treaty texts to plenary sessions), Paris diplomats had argued and counter-drafted till sunrise, two nights in a row. On the third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted...
...intra-court row between Justice Jackson and Justice Black...
...could OPA hold down prices while wage stabilization went out the window. Zenith Radio's Eugene F. McDonald Jr. nutshelled this fallacy. Said he: "This raising.of prices and wages is like a ball game. First the people in the front row stand up so they can.see better. Then the second row stands up, then the next row and so on. Soon everybody is standing and nobody can see better...
...after the raid, car prices dropped. A 1942 Cadillac, for which $4,500 had been offered the night before, went begging for $2,750. Said OPA: car prices on Automobile Row were "close to OPA ceilings" for the first time since...