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...neutral White House ground, the two combatants were met by Snyder, Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach and Presidential Adviser John Steelman. The five men stayed in the long, narrow office but 20 minutes. Then they moved over to the more commodious Cabinet Room, which has a connecting door to Harry Truman's office. That door stayed closed...
...conference assumed the air of a third degree. For 15 minutes the three Government men left Murray and Fairless alone, to talk things over by themselves. Then Schwellenbach took Murray aside, while Snyder talked to Fairless in the Cabinet Room. John Steelman flitted between the groups, a combined kibitzer and interlocutor. Then, as in a game of musical chairs, Snyder and Schwellenbach switched partners. Finally all five men got into a huddle again...
...help plot the policies and polish the phrases of the two speeches, the President took with him three men who have had much to do with his domestic program: 49-year-old Samuel Irving Rosenman, 45-year-old John Roy Steelman, and 49-year-old George Edward Allen...
Arkansas-born John Steelman, sociologist and practical conciliator, is a comparative newcomer to high presidential councils. A once potent influence in the Labor Department, he had been called on from time to time by Franklin Roosevelt. But Steelman has become much closer to F.D.R.'s successor. He attends the "Kitchen Cabinet's" daily 9 a.m. meetings with the President, is in a better position to advise him than Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach. It was significant that Steelman, not Lew Schwellenbach, went on the boat ride...
...Steelman Fairless then made a counteroffer. U.S. Steel would be more than happy, he said, to buy a "substantial amount" of hot rolled coils from the future operators of Geneva, whoever they might be. "Such an arrangement," said Fairless, "should contribute toward the successful operation of that plant...