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...Draft Sirs: It is neither TIME nor TIME-worthy to take credit from the dead. See the last sentence in the carried-over paragraph on p. 15, July 3 issue: "It was he [General Johnson] who conceived and directed the Wartime draft." To Enoch Crowder belongs this credit-if credit it is: and not to General Johnson. It irks me to find errors in TIME. MRS. P. M. RUCLEAU Santa Barbara, Calif...
General Johnson well appreciated that it was no half-an-hour job for a great industry to draft a constitution for itself, but he could not overlook that some industries were making fine profits now and might be in no hurry to raise their labor costs by adopting codes. With this in mind, Attorney General Cummings gave General Johnson a hand by calling industry's attention to the fact that the anti-trust laws are not suspended except for industries which had adopted trade codes approved by the President. General Johnson and the President wanted haste, wanted pressure...
...stenographers and pages had been warned by the Secretariat that their jobs might not outlast the week. Mr. Hull made clear that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London, when U . S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk of the Secretary of State...
...Golders" by London correspondents, wrote in succession seven statements. These were carried one after the other by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain into another room. There they were rejected one after another by the U. S. Delegation's acting fiscal expert James P. Warburg. The eighth draft he passed. It was transmitted to the President by Professor Raymond Moley who proved, last week, a great disappointment to the Conference. Delegates had hoped they could get down to business with him and really negotiate. Instead Dr. Moley. bland and self-possessed, talked courteously with everyone but made clear...
...jobs in the Army: feeding San Francisco earthquake refugees, administering Yosemite and Sequoia Parks, accompanying Pershing's punitive expedition to Mexico. In Washington during the War he went on the General Staff as chief of Purchase & Supply. It was he who conceived and directed the Wartime draft...