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...drum Washington into agreement, Kaiser rounded up the California Senate and Assembly, got them to forward a joint resolution to President Truman, Federal Loan Administrator John Wesley Snyder and California's Senators and Congressmen-urging continued postwar operation of western war plants by "those who pioneered them...
...Congress he was wholeheartedly for Roosevelt-sponsored legislation to continue the Price Control and Stabilization Act and to extend Selective Service without amendments restricting the use of 18-year-olds in combat unless they have had prescribed periods of training. ¶Made his first major appointment-close friend John Wesley Snyder, St. Louis banker and former RFC official, to be Federal Loan Administrator (see THE ADMINISTRATION...
Seasoned, solid, 48-year-old John Wesley Snyder, the new Administrator, is a hard-driving St. Louis banker, a former manager of the St. Louis branch of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and an old and close friend of Harry Truman...
There, John Wesley Snyder endeared him self to all & sundry by his swift cutting of Government red tape, his shrewd spending of some $3 billion of U.S. war money...
Besides the expected change in the State Department, Washington politicos expected something like this: 9 Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, would be replaced. Possible successors: California's Edwin W. Pauley. hustling treasurer of the 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...