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...under another name. When Lustron's persuasive President Carl G. Strandlund (who lives at Columbus, Ohio, in a frame house, with an adjoining Lustron guesthouse) proposed his program three years ago, RFC turned it down. Wilson Wyatt, then Federal Housing administrator, quit in protest. Presidential Assistant John Steelman stepped in and asked RFC to reconsider. RFC did so; it set Lustron on its feet with a $15.5 million loan (Strandlund & associates raised $840,000). Within a year, they needed more...
...Breeskin, one of Washington society's favorite orchestra leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...
...first target of the proponents of federal aid will be elementary and secondary schools--as in the Taft bill. Just, before Christmas, Truman's assistant, Dr. John Steelman, said that this part of the educational world has "the highest priority." This evidently means that colleges will have to wait, so far as Administration plans are concerned. That's all right with such backers of federal aid as the National Education Association, which lobbies for hundreds of thousands of schools-teachers. And the colleges will probably be content to wait, figuring that if the grade and high schools get it first...
...pride. There was still a shortage of electricity in the Midwest and along the Pacific Coast, though utility men had worked frantically to expand. They spent $2.3 billion and hoped to spend another $3.3 billion to expand in the next five years. Despite the hopeful speeches of many a steelman that supply would soon meet demand, the great steel shortage was almost as bad at year's end as at the year's start...
Administration officials, not quite recovered from the Vinson fiasco, did their best to keep the whole affair a family secret. Mr. Steelman picked himself up, brushed himself off and tried to look both innocent and unruffled. "There was some talking back and forth when I presented the draft at the Pentagon," he recalled. "When the President goes off and leaves me in charge, I don't have time to pay much attention to little picayunish things...