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...Telford Taylor, another recent writer on the problems of investigations, share many of Barth's criticisms of investigative practices. But he takes a much more restricted view of all individual's moral right to refuse testimony about others...
...LIFE, We, the People is presenting a 13-week series devoted to the race for the Presidency. The story of the candidates and issues is being told in a mixture of live interviews, films, animated cartoons and commentary. On its opening show, LIFE'S editors and Producer Frank Telford made a clean break with the old People by borrowing and staging the Wintergreen for President number from the current Broadway revival of Of Thee I Sing, followed it with a filmed flashback covering the seven decision-filled years of the Truman Administration and a Washington interview with Vice President...
...Small Defense Plants Administrator Telford Taylor, newly endowed with powers wrested from Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, announced that even where competitive bids are required on defense contracts, the procurement agencies have been empowered to ignore the lowest bid, if necessary, to give small business what he considers its fair share...
After Congress created the Small Defense Plants Administration last July, President Truman had a hard time finding a man to run the new agency. Last month he snagged Telford Taylor, 43, an old New Deal friend of Truman's, who has made a notable record as general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission, as a G-2 brigadier general in World War II and, later, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg war crimes trials. A Harvard Law School graduate ('32), Taylor left the Government in 1949, this year began his own Manhattan law practice...
...SDPA really necessary? Telford Taylor thinks so. To insure small business "a full part" in mobilization, he expects to set up SDPA offices in Washington and around the nation, although he is "hopeful of keeping our Washington staff below 200." But small business, already in the arms program up to its-ears, hardly seems to need a protector. Of the current military spending, small businessmen are getting 21% in prime contracts, 35% more through subcontracts, e.g., General Motors alone subcontracts to 12,500 other companies. Companies with fewer than 500 employees are enjoying record rates of birth, survival and growth...