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...printers: Oswald Thomas, plant owner, and Robert Bracken, ex-owner. The charge: perjury. Their firm, said police, had printed price lists for Vancouver's United Distillers of Canada Ltd., considered the largest independently owned distillery in Canada, makers of Harwood's. These prices had been submitted to OPA in the U.S. as those in effect in December 1941 or January 1942, the base period for price ceilings. Using them as a base, OPA had set the U.S. price of Harwood's at $19.05 a case (wholesale) and $6.44 a fifth, retail. But, contended police, the lists...
...arrests were prompted by an OPA investigation (Canadian and U.S. officials cooperate on price matters) after numerous U.S. liquor consumers complained about Harwood's price. OPA, close-mouthed about the whole affair, was still trying to determine just when United Distillers began to make Harwood's whiskey. Apparently, it was made only for export. Upwards of an estimated two million cases have been shipped across the border since 1944 to parched Americans...
...Archibald MacLeish, poet and ex-Librarian of Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
...people were by and large voting against a party which had been in power since 1932 and not for any specific men representing specific ideas. Only the most careful analysis of the voting after all the returns are in will determine whether or not there was any concerted anti-OPA vote by the American people...
Revealing of the public's state of mind are the answers to the second group of questions. Republican voters declared themselves as having "had enough" of "frivolous agency spending," "controls, confusion, communism and claptrap," "Bungling at Washington, shortage, OPA etc." Some added the word, "Truman." These people wanted more of "economy in domestic spending," "honest and competent government," "more efficient organization of the reconversion program," "leadership." One woman polled put down "love," from which it is deducted she was interested intensely in peace in the broad one-world sense...