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...President has rarely fired anybody, but he swept aging Jesse Jones out as head of the Commerce Department, the RFC, and RFC's eight potent subsidiaries.* The reason was purely political and Mr. Roosevelt made no bones about it. It was to give a job to lame-duck Vice President Henry Wallace...
...shortages of manpower. Merchant shipbuilding, with its notoriously high labor turnover, will always be in a critical state while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...
...manpower, WPB officials now said. Last week WPB's Chairman Julius A. ("Cap") Krug halted the production of cotton yarn for civilian needs. Manufacture of upholstery and drapery material, chenille bedspreads and dishmops, would make way for an Army rush order of eight million pounds of cotton duck a month, to meet a shortage of Army tents. The Fourth Service Command in Atlanta furloughed 1,000 former textile workers now in uniform to return to the looms and turn out cotton duck. They will receive factory wages, in addition to regular Army...
...78th Congress flickered to a finish, lame-duck Congressmen seized their last chance. One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories. Most of their colleagues had already gone home, but the Congressional Record was still there, duty-bound to print every last quack. Each swan-songster was convinced that his constituents had been misguided, but magnanimously agreed to abide by the voters' decision. Each also wanted to take a few fast, final pokes at the Soviet Union and the British Empire...
MacLeish's inquisitor was Missouri's lame duck Bennett Champ Clark. MacLeish's offenses were the sins of liberal pamphleteering and rhetorical poetry. In the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room, he gamely, lamely countered the poking and prodding of his tormentor...