Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Vinson's 8,000-word report to President Truman was titled: "The War-Phase Two." Said Vinson: "The paramount command is: win the war! Victory over Japan comes ahead of every other consideration.'' Then he drew a picture of what U.S. civilians may expect as America's full weight is thrown to the west...
...reconversion wheels turning, Fred Vinson's advice to labor and industry was: get going with as little Government interference as possible. There were still price, wage and production controls to be faced, and for a long time there would still be such controls...
More important, Washington also started the ball rolling toward partial reconversion. From grey, owlish Fred Moore Vinson, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, came a broad plan for easing back to civilian-goods production-without interfering with supplies for the war against Japan. But the "partial" in the reconversion plan told its own story: the U.S. still had a war to win, the U.S. economy would still be largely controlled, U.S. citizens would still feel many a wartime shortage...
Later, owlish Fred Vinson, President Truman's War Mobilizer, told the committee that the San Francisco conference would be helped by prompt action on both reciprocal trade agreements and the Bretton Woods monetary plan. Fred Vinson, an old hand at Congressional quizzing, was in no mood for fooling. When Knutson asked him if lower tariffs were not like lower immigration controls, he replied: "I read the newspapers, you know. You asked that question of another fellow. You reared up and operated on him and then apologized...
...Face, New Job. To hustle reconversion along still faster, Home Front Czar Fred M. Vinson last week put an old face into a new job. He named gorilla-shouldered Robert Roy Nathan, 36, as his deputy to take the place of Major General Lucius Clay. Businessmen were quick to note the significance: General Clay was Czar Jimmy Byrnes's deputy for war production; Nathan will be Fred Vinson's deputy for reconversion. Among other duties his job will be to see that the Army does not overestimate its needs, thus postpone reconversion work...