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Instead of a happy reunion, instead of a wave of new confidence at the appointment of Jimmy Byrnes as tsar of inflation control (see p. 18), the President's homecoming produced the ridiculous spectacle of new bitterness. It brought to the surface a fundamental conflict of temperament and methods, a conflict between Franklin Roosevelt and the men who share responsibility in the war effort, a conflict which lies at the root of their multifarious impatience with the effort itself...
...People's Tsar. These orders did not bring inflation under control. That still has to be done by the organization created to carry out the orders. To administer the new anti-inflation program, as Director of Economic Stabilization, the President chose shrewd, wiry Jimmy Byrnes, 63, a hale good fellow who was one of the smoothest politicians on Capitol Hill before he moved up to the Supreme Court last year. Byrnes is a middle-of-the-roader who can get along with men of all beliefs; he knows when to hold his tongue; he is an expert at finding...
...Economic Tsar Byrnes is no great master of economics (though he is a longtime friend and follower of Wizard Bernie Baruch), but he is not supposed to be. He will leave administrative details to his new committee: the heads of all the wartime and peacetime agencies which now deal with the various aspects of inflation, including OPA's Leon Henderson, the War Labor Board's William H. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Byrnes's job is to listen to the arguments among his committee members (who have seldom seen eye to eye in the past...
Manpower. Since April, when President Roosevelt made tall, tan and terrific-Paul Vories McNutt head of WMC, Americans have expected the Manpower Tsar to start ordering them around: to tell businessmen whom they could hire, snatch housewives out of their homes. They did not realize that his title was ersatz, that he has authority to make policy but none to carry it out, that in all Washington there is hardly a man willing to lift a finger to give him that power. He cannot yet give orders to any worker. The nation's 6,500 independent draft boards take...
Nationwide rationing was announced promptly last week by the nation's new Rubber Tsar, William M. Jeffers. It will begin as soon as Washington can distribute the paraphernalia: 60,000,000 new application blanks and coupon books, 91,000,000 gummed sheets for filling stations to keep coupons on, 100,000,000 copies of auditing forms, regulations and instructions...