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...That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said he, "the face of America turns westward. . . . The objective has been clearly established by President Truman: 'The primary task facing the nation today is to win the war in Japan -to win it as quickly as possible.' " Unczarlike Czar. The man who drew this picture of the U.S. in transition was a man of long experience in the Government. He was an expert on taxes, a whiz at poker, a lover of sports, an unflustered worker who looks and acts less like a czar than most men with...
...needs of war; 2) resolving high-policy conflicts between Government agencies. He is consulted in labor and stabilization matters, can hand down edicts affecting the whole nation-e.g., immediately after the German surrender he lifted the ban on racing, the curfew, the brownout. He is the home-front czar...
...czar has a small staff of 94. His chief assistants are General Counsel Ed Prichard, onetime law clerk to Justice Frankfurter, physically slimmed down from his baby elephant proportions; ex-WPB planner Bob Nathan, who lends a New Deal tone to the office and an appearance of Neanderthal man to the staff; and mild, quiet Paul L. Kelley, Vinson confidant for 20 years, one of whose duties is to make out Tax Expert Vinson's income-tax return (Vinson's salary...
Never in any sense a czar, he was at best what George Eastman called the "cat's whiskers" of the industry, at frequent worst a whipping boy whose weapons for achieving order in the chaotic young industry were persuasion and patience...
...members were generally unknown, they had no known disqualifications. Harry Truman, who does not believe in one-man government, told them that they would have unquestioned authority in their fields. Clint Anderson, for instance, also becomes War Food Administrator and will thus be the nation's absolute food czar in fact as well as in name. Washington dopesters thought it only a matter of time until WLB, NLRB and the National Mediation Board would be put under the new Secretary of Labor...