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...will be a tough one, perhaps tougher than labor's demands. Jimmy Byrnes had decided to fight the clamor for higher farm prices with farm subsidies; this week a House subcommittee turned that plan down. In the light of this, the 48-hour-week was just the last stopgap compromise before the next...
After last summer's wasting days of turmoil, Franklin Roosevelt had stepped in with some spectacular reorganizations-appointment of Byrnes and Jeffers, of McNutt and Wickard, a shakeup of WPB. Now, even inside the Administration, observers agreed that this, too, had been a stopgap. The sound effects had been terrific, the visual impression of Olympian lightnings spectacular-but nothing had really been changed. The era of good cheer had run its course; some nasty trouble brewed. The only consolation for plain citizens was that, despite the procrastination and the palace revolutions, the Army somehow grew and the munitions somehow...
...Eden? In the past year's Gallup polls in Britain Eden has run as first choice to succeed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, challenged only during Sir Stafford Cripps's brief flurry last spring. He might or might not be only a stopgap Prime Minister. (He might, for example, be muscled out of the way by Arch-Tory Sir John Anderson.) But, Churchill having announced that he will retire as soon as war ends-when the U.S. wants to talk permanent postwar settlements-the best available Briton for the other end of the discussion is Mr. Eden...
...magic of obtaining more materials than exist by the simple device of inventing higher priority ratings has about lost its effectiveness as a stage illusion, even in Washington. AA-2x, it appeared, was only a stopgap measure until WPBoss Donald Nelson's new plan-it man Ferdinand Eberstadt (TIME. Sept. 28) got the new, more realistic allocations system under...
...Reynolds Holiday Inn is a plugger's triumph. Before dancing with Astaire, singing with Crosby, she made about 70 pictures-from a moppet role (age six) in Scaramouche to college musicals, Boris Karloff thrillers, scores of Monogram and Universal Westerns and cliffhangers. Thrown in as a last-minute stopgap for a heroineless Holiday Inn, she recalled enough of her former ballet training, enough of her singing voice to get by. Blonde Miss Reynolds (real name: Marjorie Goodspeed) adds a Wild-West charm to the picture...