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First he read a clipping from Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
...discussion lasted an hour and a half. At its end a Presidential directive went out to War, Navy, State Departments. Its gist: henceforth Elmer Davis will decide when, where & how all war news is to be released. The only exception: if any Department feels OWI is releasing any item of news too soon, thus endangering the national security, it can appeal to the President, who then will act as arbiter...
TIME herewith publishes the gist of a plan, proposed last week, for U.S. participation in the postwar world. TIME calls its readers' attention to this plan because: 1) it is a specific blueprint, documented far beyond generalities; 2) it is pointed toward next week's meeting of the Republican Postwar Advisory Council at Mackinac Island, Mich., called to formulate an official GOPolicy on postwar affairs...
Last week all this talk caused the War Manpower Commission to do some tough, scary talking of its own. Gist of its talk: if necessary, the manpower problem may be solved by the wholesale removal of plants from the Pacific area. These were big-muscled words for often flabby WMC. And while few believed that such drastic measures would be necessary, or feasible, there was plenty of evidence that WMC is at last using its muscles to solve its No. 1 problem...
...Aware of the squeeze on canners, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey allotted $200,000 to spread instructions on home canning throughout the state to preserve a maximum amount of food. Also before Governor Dewey was the report of his Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...