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...brought him to Washington more often, and lengthened each visit. In 1941 Rosenman was called to reorganize the entire defense agency setup. Result: the Supply, Priorities & Allocations Board. Later, Commuter Rosenman helped organize the War Manpower Commission. Next, the Governments' snarled public-relations agencies needed attention. So Rosenman, between running errands and writing speeches for the President, and advising him on the selection of candidates tor Government jobs, planned the Office of War Information...
...with the way the Army sees today. Admiral Nimitz had also recommended increasing the authority of the proposed commander of the armed forces by eliminating the Joint Chiefs of Staff "between him and the forces that he is going to command," and had recommended the setup for peace as well as war. His testimony then had been as eloquent and convincing an argument for unification as any general or admiral has yet made...
...opinion since he returned from the isolation of Guam to the grim realities of Washington poli tics? He said that the integration of U.S. effort achieved in the closing days of the Pacific War had convinced him that everything would always be all right, even under the present divided setup...
...because no country can deal single-handed with cartels, the report also proposed that Canada's Government work hard for establishment of an international body, probably somewhere in the United Nations Organization setup, to blot out cartels forever...
...Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind of setup [as Vienna], isn't it?") and, as director, imports famed Moviemaker Friedrich Bergmann, who is forced to take the job because the Nazis have smashed his career in Germany...