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...There is "delay in announcing and making cutbacks, lack of both raw and semifinished materials and tools, insufficient in formation available for industry to make plans far enough in advance, and lack of manpower in some key places. . . ." The committee laid some of the blame on former OWMBoss Fred Vinson (now Secretary of the Treasury). His office, said the committee, had spent too much time laying down broad policy, "is not accessible to a man with a problem." It also gave the back of its hand to the Army: "The Army is continuing to utilize its manpower wastefully. In addition...
...first major appointment, Harry Truman had called in an old friend and World War I buddy, St. Louis Banker John Wesley Snyder, to succeed Fred Vinson as Federal Loan Administrator. This week, as Vinson moved on to the Treasury Department, John Snyder moved into another Vinson seat: he became Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion...
Moreover, as Snyder moved in, some of OWMR's ablest operators moved out. Vinson's fat, fast-thinking general counsel, Ed Prichard, would follow his boss to the Treasury; Don Russell, a Jimmy Byrnes protege who had handled much of the war production side, had gone with Byrnes to the State Department. Others were gone or going. Grey, bespectacled Boss Snyder would have to find a new staff...
Banker Snyder set out to build his own pipelines to other Government departments. He had one consolation: Fred Vinson would carry much of his economic policy-making with him to the Treasury Department. No one pretended that John Snyder would ever be called the Assistant President, as Jimmy Byrnes and Fred Vinson had been...
Fred Perry, 36-year-old ex-world champion tennist (amateur and pro), was sued for divorce by his second wife, who charged cruelty. (Cinemactress Helen Vinson had divorced him in 1940 after complaining that he made her attend all his tennis matches...