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...fisted assault on Hague's domination of the State government, the bill waived payment by railroads of $17,000,000 in interest and penalties on tax bills, settled a much-argued suit by accepting $34,000.000 in installments. Worse still, the bill poked at the shaky financial setup of Jersey City by providing that railroads shall hereafter pay taxes on a more flexible basis. Boss Hague's paternalistic government of Jersey City is the most expensive in the U.S., and he needs the heavy municipal taxes (three times higher per mile than in any other State) paid...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill this week tackled a problem on which some of the sharpest criticism of his administration has been centered: the setup of the Ministry of Information. He did so in the course of a minor Government reshuffle...
...that the British are as yet no match for the Germans in man power or machine power, the job in Cairo had turned out to be too big for one man. It had comprised Q and O and lots of things the Army had no letters for. The new setup provided that General Auchinleck should concentrate fairly narrowly on military problems and action...
...announcing its own reorganization. Administration men privately told reporters that even this reorganized OPM was still on trial. If it does not do better with production now scheduled within 60 days, if its residual red tape continues to slow the production of planes, tanks, ships and guns, the whole setup will be scrapped. Something else will be tried, perhaps the one-man control of defense that patriots like Wendell Willkie have been crying for. In the prospect that all this may have to be done after the U.S. has gone to war, not even an isolationist could find anything...
Notable fact about this setup: it was not concerned with Brazil's agricultural commodities that compete with U.S. products and surplus. That meant it was no mere bailing-out of Brazil, but an effort to encourage Brazil to develop products (especially manganese, mica and rubber) that the U.S. needs in greater quantities...