Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Vinson had quit it April 2, after a 29-day occupancy, to become Franklin Roosevelt's War Mobilizer. ) Last week, in his first major appointment, President Truman filled the job. His choice seemed to please everybody...
...Democratic National Committee; or John Wesley Snyder, rotund, 48-year-old St. Louis banker, close friend of the President, former executive vice president and director of the Defense Plant Corp. in Jesse Jones's RFC. (Snyder, said Washington speculation, might first become Federal Lean Administrator, succeeding Fred Vinson...
...Judge took with him, as his general counsel and No. 1 adviser, young (30), rolypoly Edward F. Prichard, who had been his right-hand man in the Office of Economic Stabilization and also in the loan agencies. In substituting Vinson & Prichard for Byrnes and his military deputy, Major General Lucius Clay, Franklin Roosevelt was getting no team of yes-men, even where the War Department was concerned. It was a team that might work more happily with civilian officials, who had resented the military-first policies of smooth, determined General Clay (who had gone off to be top U.S. civil...
...looked as though the new set-up would mark the start of the long-awaited period of readjustment. Fred Vinson was no easy-war man, but Washington knew he would stand for no more restrictions than absolutely necessary. And now there would be no military policymaker in OWMR. The emphasis would be on keeping the U.S. economy headed for the day when it could break loose from war restrictions...
...reconversion plan for U.S. industry after V-E day was formally unwrapped last week. Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes had given businessmen a good peek at it when he turned over his job to Fred Vinson fortnight ago, but he left it up to WPBoss Julius A. Krug to take off all the wraps. In so doing, WPBoss Krug optimistically predicted that a year after Germany quits, the U.S. will be turning out as many refrigerators, stoves and possibly autos - and all other consumers' goods...