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Despite the probability of such scattered increases, there still seemed little threat of any overall puff of new inflation. Nevertheless, the Eisenhower Administration was taking no chances. Back into harness as stabilization consultant came James F. Brownlee, 61, a Manhattan businessman who did stints with OPA and WPB during World War II, at war's end became deputy director in the Office of Economic Stabilization. Brownlee, working with Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance, will help set up new mobilization machinery. Best guess is that Jim Brownlee would make a strong argument for a stand-by control bill...
Soapy went into the Navy as a deck officer and gravitated to staff work. When he was discharged in mid-1946, a lieutenant commander with ten Pacific battle stars and a Legion of Merit, Murphy got him a job as deputy director of OPA in Michigan. By this time Soapy was on the make for governor, and-when the OPA job expired-he gladly seized at Fred Alger's offer of the spot on the liquor commission. At the same time Soapy Williams, the boy wonder of three schools, rounded the corner and came face to face with practical...
...January 16, he played a district attorney opposite pretty Pat Ryan, a California redhead who, like Dick, had worked her way through college and was a teacher at the local high school. They were married in 1940. A month after Pearl Harbor, Nixon went to work for the OPA in Washington. Says he: "In OPA I learned respect for the thousands of hard-working Government employees and an equal contempt for most of the political appointees at the top. I saw Government overlapping and Government empire-building firsthand...
...Henderson watched Iran, with U.N. and U.S. help, weather the crisis in 1946, when the Red Army finally got out of the northern part of the country. ¶ To replace Henderson in India, President Harry Truman nominated Chester Bowles, ex-partner in the advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, wartime OPA administrator, ex-Governor of Connecticut. Left-wing Democrats have long argued that U.S.-Indian relations suffer because the U.S. does not show India its liberal face. If there is any merit in this argument, Liberal Bowles should be able to improve matters. The chief obstacle to U.S.-Indian friendship...
Breaking Points. In Chicago, Peter Musick admitted smashing eight plate-glass windows because "it gave me a sense of fulfillment." In New Albany, Ind., when Tenant Frank Collins refused to pay his rent on the ground that it was above the OPA ceiling, Landlord William Deatrick chopped down the stairway entrance to Collins' apartment...