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...Face, New Job. To hustle reconversion along still faster, Home Front Czar Fred M. Vinson last week put an old face into a new job. He named gorilla-shouldered Robert Roy Nathan, 36, as his deputy to take the place of Major General Lucius Clay. Businessmen were quick to note the significance: General Clay was Czar Jimmy Byrnes's deputy for war production; Nathan will be Fred Vinson's deputy for reconversion. Among other duties his job will be to see that the Army does not overestimate its needs, thus postpone reconversion work...
...Past. Cavalryman Patton gallops along in a tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...
Protesting against the conservative slant of the American press, Nathan Robertson, Washington correspondent of PM, told a joint meeting of the Harvard Liberal Union, Post War Council and Radcliffe League for Democracy last night that economic and political decisions made in the next few months would be critical, and that "unless we can face these issues better than most of our American papers have, we're in for a lot of trouble...
More young men fortified with the practical experience of college newspaper work, and with the theoretical background of the social sciences, are needed as political writers, stated Nathan Robertson, Washington correspondent for PM and winner of the Heywood Broun award for the outstanding liberal newspaperman...
Composing the group are Thomas V. Keene '45, president of the Council, Oakes Ames '47, Harish Mahindra '46, Daniel P.S. Paul '46, and Nathan Weston '47. Keene emphasized that the Committee will not conduct any investigations unless specific complaints are registered...