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...Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, stung into action, promptly demanded that all Government agencies concerned in the jumble tell him what was wrong, how it could be corrected. The U.S. hoped he could untangle the threads. Citizens hardly needed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's plea to accept rationing as a wartime sacrifice (see p. 11). They had a demonstration that rationing, properly handled, is only a matter of self-protection...
...Turned over to Economic Czar James F. Byrnes the Presidential power to arbitrate disputes between Food Czar Claude R. Wickard and any agencies that might...
...same could scarcely be said about the shortage of men. Manpower problems, which received more wordage in the press than any other domestic issue, remained throughout the year a confused hubbub. Organizationally, progress was made when Paul V. McNutt was appointed supreme manpower czar by the President, taking over not only industrial mobilization but Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey's Selective Service as well. Mr. McNutt promised that sooner or later the U.S. would get a civilian selective law similar to Britain's. But whether McNutt, the politician, would prove as shrewd an organizer of men as Eberstadt...
...long left undone, Food Czar Claude Wickard last week put the Department of Agriculture on a wartime basis and picked two energetic lieutenants to help him. The job: to end doodling over a food situation that is rapidly getting out of hand. The men: big, shaggy, 38-year-old Roy Frederick Hendrickson, who became Director of Food Distribution; tall, sober, 47-year-old Herbert William ("Parse") Parisius, the new Director of Food Production...
Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, after a day spent conferring with Petroleum Czar Ickes in Washington, where offices are comfortably warm (see p. 22), returned to icy Boston determined to invoke his emergency war powers, if necessary, to force conversion. His first action last week was to proclaim a voluntary "gasless Sunday...