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...Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes who wrapped up all the hastily formed plans into one glittery package, and in some 6,000 politically well-chosen words, revealed the whole Administration plan for V-E day. Jimmy Byrnes announced that when those happy days were here, there would be something for everybody...
...game, making their record six and one, E decided to play Lowell again. If they could beat the Bellboys they would also have a record of six and one, and would be entitled to a playoff game with C. They played Lowell and won, only to have Chief Dunlap, czar of the league, to rule the game as unofficial...
...rushed by with still no definite word from the White House, Vice Presidential boomlets blossomed all over the country. At least 15 men were being talked about and worked for. The President's own list of men acceptable to him, in order of preference, was: 1) Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt...
...break the deadlock, home-front Czar Jimmy Byrnes intervened last week-and it was on Jimmy that Don Nelson did his selling job over the telephone. The Services had argued that manpower was already short in war industries. Peace-goods production would drive even more workers to the security of peace-plant jobs...
...will remain unavailable for civilian goods as long as the Services are convinced that its release will interfere with war production. In effect, the reconversion problem, on whose solution future U.S. prosperity largely hangs, has clashed head on with the lingering problem of war production. This week home front Czar Jimmy Byrnes offered to arbitrate the big dispute. But Donald Nelson still might need all his convalescent strength for the battle ahead...