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...necessary supply of materials and commodities required for civilian use." Said he to his press conference: "The essence of control does not lie essentially in price-fixing administration, but resides largely in the question of supply and capacity." He considers himself a supply commissioner as well as a price tsar; he plans to use all his power to put pressure on business to drop opposition to plant expansion. Major examples of such opposition: the Gano Dunn report (declaring steel capacity adequate); frequent assurances from the railroads that they can handle all the country's transportation needs without additional facilities...
...their ally. From North Africa the footloose Colonel went to Athens, where he found the British laying plans to widen their front. The Greeks were frightened of too much British aid, thought it would provoke the Germans. Colonel Donovan interrupted his stay in Athens to pay a call on Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...Sofia he sat down for two hours with Boris. Since both men are old soldiers, Colonel Donovan doubtless talked soldiers' language to the Tsar. And since Bulgaria waited another six weeks before joining the Axis, his language must have been somewhat effective. It was during his stay in Sofia that someone pinched Wild Bill's passport (TIME, Feb. 3). But the papers the pickpocket wanted were where he could not reach them...
...Since Mr. Hopkins cannot work more than six or seven hours a day, a smart young New Dealer, handsome Oscar Cox, a Treasury assistant, was assigned to act as legal adviser to Hopkins. The move in effect put Hopkins in as the nearest Roosevelt approach to a Defense Tsar, such as Bernard Baruch was in World War I. But Mr. Roosevelt will continue to run things, with the team of Knudsenhillman assigned more & more to the physical workshop of defense...
Divorced. Betty Compton Walker, 34, onetime dancer; from James J. Walker, New York City's Mayor during the Wall Street-and-nightclub era, now "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of its cloak-&-suit industry; on her second try; because of his "apparently insane tempers"; in Key West...