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...underground courier Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with information that implicated Assistant Secretary of Treasury Harry Dexter White (he was never indicted) and helped convict WPB Aide William Remington of perjury and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of stealing atomic secrets...
Samuel W. Anderson, 57, resigned as assistant Secretary of Commerce for international affairs to become president of the American Watch Association, representing U.S. importers of Swiss movements. An investment banker and industrial planner, Anderson joined WPB in 1941, supervised the huge expansion of U.S. aluminum and magnesium industries. He returned to Washington in 1948 to become ECA's industrial director, later headed the World Bank's Latin American division. As assistant commerce secretary, Anderson supported President Eisenhower's tariff raise for Swiss watches last year. As watch association president, he will try to turn back the tariff...
Here at home, the War Production Board will erupt as Charles E. (Electric Charlie) Wilson and Donald M. Nelson bring their long-standing feud to a head. And Sidney J. Weinberg, WPB vice-chairman assigned to the job of making peace between them, will also quit in disgust. Charlie will be pleased to know that Governor Thomas E. Dewey will conduct a stirring campaign as the Republican nominee for President...
Despite the probability of such scattered increases, there still seemed little threat of any overall puff of new inflation. Nevertheless, the Eisenhower Administration was taking no chances. Back into harness as stabilization consultant came James F. Brownlee, 61, a Manhattan businessman who did stints with OPA and WPB during World War II, at war's end became deputy director in the Office of Economic Stabilization. Brownlee, working with Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance, will help set up new mobilization machinery. Best guess is that Jim Brownlee would make a strong argument for a stand-by control bill...
With time out to do a turn with WPB during World War II, Solinskj' built his little Cans, Inc. into an $8,000,000-a-year business making containers for Perk Dog Food (TIME, Sept. 29), popcorn, potato chips and beer. Competitors think the trouble with National Can is that it has been run too long by men who have been sitting on their own product. By exploiting such new markets as canned whole milk, Solinsky hopes to get the company back on its feet, boost it from fourth to third in the industry. Says...