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...national economy he has opposed Government planning and planners. He opposed AAA, the National Resources Planning Board, TVA. He opposed appointment of TVA's David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He fought price control, believing that the market should reflect true costs and the real economic level...
...began his Washington career 15 years ago in the legal department of Henry Wallace's AAA. Wallace had to bounce him and some 20 other AAA employees because too many people complained that the group was trying to change the world too fast. Pressman bobbed up again in Harry Hopkins' WPA, then in Rexford Tugwell's Rural Resettlement Administration. In 1936 John Lewis, then playing footie with the leftists in labor, made him counsel of the rebel C.I.O...
From New York, go through the Holland Tunnel and take route 22 to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From there go south on route 15 to Culpeppar, and then follow route 29 to Charlottesville, the AAA advised...
Draft Dodgers. In the diamond hierarchy, the P.C.L. has an unusual status. The 16 major-league clubs own or control 70% of the nation's 326 clubs in organized baseball. But the AAA coast league is 87½% independent (the one exception is Phil Wrigley's Los Angeles Angels). Still, the majors have kept a tight hold on the P.C.L. through the draft law, which forces the clubs to sell their stars or risk having them drafted at season's end for a niggling...
...less prickly emissaries, heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former professor of physiology at the Sorbonne; Legal Affairs -Ivan Kerno, Czech jurist, veteran of the League and the French underground; and Trusteeships-Dr. Victor Hoo, witty Washington-born Chinese diplomat, who makes a sweeping claim to be a citizen of the world...