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...want you to talk of the U.S.O. in Monroe, La. Here's a town of 25,000 people, with the best damn setup in the country. Let me tell...
...Setup. Henry's room was already full of jobs and responsibilities. The President's old scheme to make the Vice-Presidency into a job of work (TIME, Nov. 11) had been carried out almost too thoroughly. Henry Agard Wallace had a Constitutional job presiding over the Senate, he had a bigger second job, never visioned by the Founding Fathers, which might end in his presiding over the world: chairman of the Economic Defense Board...
...setup has one advantage over the shadowy previous organizations: hopefully, it can run itself. Any problem that cannot be settled down the line will automatically run directly up to Executive Director Donald Nelson. If the problem is too big for the Executive Director he will present it to his Board. The seven directors will then take a vote. Their decision is final unless the losing side appeals it to the President. (Mr. Roosevelt has served notice that he does not want to be bothered with appeals from every nickel-nickel decision downstairs...
...SPAB was an improvement on the previous mess. "Yet, after all," said he, "one man, the ablest in America, can do a better job than a seven-man board . . . . Let us have a procurement director . . . with power to act." Thus it remained to be seen whether the new setup could genuinely...
...make this setup a little blood had to be shed. Two weak spots in OPM were Production, headed by John David Biggers, and Priorities headed by Edward R. Stettinius. Both were given jobs in which they may have more success...