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...along streets of the Loop to watch the President's party drive to Michigan Boulevard's Blackstone Hotel. There were some cheers as smiling Harry Truman's car passed. For the car behind his, carrying General Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral William D. Leahy and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, there were prolonged huzzahs...
Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga., of the Naval Affairs Committee, said he would offer a proposal to continue the draft until February 15, 1947, but suspend inductions from May 15 to October 15 while the Army and Navy "conducted an intensive voluntary recruitment program...
After October 15, Vinson would give the President authority to call for inductions if the services were unable to meet their requirements...
...British did not like the way Fred Vinson sidetracked Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry White, one of the foster fathers of Bretton Woods and top U.S. expert. They get on well with him, thought he was the best man to head the Fund. Instead, he was relegated to the less important job of director. (President will probably be Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada...
...most important U.S. Bretton Woods official will be the president of the Bank. Leading candidate for the $30,000-a-year job was Lewis Douglas, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. and an old crony of Fred Vinson's. A onetime Democratic Congressman from Arizona, and U.S. Budget Director, he had quit the New Deal in protest against its spending policies. His appointment would be a sop to conservative Democrats...