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...east wing of the White House one day last week, Jimmy Byrnes stood by while his longtime friend, Judge Fred M. Vinson, took the oath of office for the job Byrnes had just left: Director of the Office of War Mobilization and reConversion...
Jimmy Byrnes had stayed in Washington an extra day to attend the quiet ceremony. At Fred Vinson's request there were no pictures. When it was over, Byrnes shook hands with his successor, walked wearily out of the White House to go back to the practice of law in his home town-Spartanburg. S.C.-and in Washington...
...Boss. Grey, owlish Fred Vinson had rounded out less than a month as the new Federal Loan Administrator when he was called over to step into Byrnes's shoes, and another tough assignment. But the 55-year-old former Kentucky Congressman was well equipped for the hot-corner spot. He had built a reputation as a skillful Government servant, able to resist pressures, capable of untangling economic snarls with the shrewd persistence of a veteran poker player...
...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...