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Last spring Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks questioned the objectivity of a National Bureau of Standards' investigation that found the battery additive, AD-X2, worthless, and forced the resignation of Dr. Allen V. Astin, the bureau's director (TIME, April 27; July 6). In the subsequent hullabaloo, a committee of ten well-known scientists was assigned to investigate the battery dope, and Weeks reinstated Astin "temporarily." (He later made the reinstatement permanent.) Last week the committee's report was made public: 1) the quality of the bureau's investigation under Dr. Astin was "excellent...
...alert Department of Justice lawyer sniffed suspiciously when he heard about Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks's plan to set up 20 or so advisory councils, each representing a particular industry. The lawyer asked the Commerce Department what the councils might recommend. Replied Weeks & Co.: in the field of taxation, the oil-industry council would probably advise continuation of the depletion allowance for oil producers...
...Committee on Public Information, Wilsonian Democrat Creel set out to arouse the home front ("Give me two weeks . . . and I'll change the so-called mind of the American public on any given subject"). After the Armistice, Author Creel freelanced in California, ran unsuccessfully against Fellow Muckraker Upton Sinclair in 1934 gubernatorial primary, later broke with the New Deal-Fair Deal, last fall headed northern California's Democrats for Eisenhower...
...Savage World. Thorstein Veblen also cast a jaundiced eye on the bourgeoisie. A nonconformist who might have been one of Sinclair Lewis' village atheists, he was born on the American frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety pin and he'd up his socks with two pins moored to his pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious...
...FIGHT is developing over the U.S. stockpile of strategic materials. While Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming is fighting to build up the stockpile, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks has been getting some scarce materials released to industry. One result: aluminum stocks, dipped into several times to make up for production shortages, have dropped alarmingly...