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Five years ago labor leaders were doing their best to stir up discontent. Today that condition is reversed and almost every responsible labor leader knows he sits on a lid. The situation is so serious that the President has asked his No. 1 trouble shooter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, to suggest a plan for restoring mutual confidence before the pressure for wage increases blows price control sky high...
...were the children of Harry Hopkins by his two previous marriages, and Son David brought along his wife. There were 23 members of the White House staff. The only other guests: Mrs. Clinchy; Playwright Robert Sherwood, who often lends a hand on White House speeches; Presidential Adviser Samuel I. Rosenman; General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King...
...Washington insiders were aware of another figure: bald, bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London and Palestine, noted chemist, noted Zionist. Dr. Weizmann had a date in Washington to confer with Presidential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Rosenman. Reports were that Dr. Weizmann, who did not claim to know all the facts about synthetic rubber, nevertheless knew more of them than any other one man, perhaps could set the record straight...
...Army shake-ups in March, Smith's able, quiet staff workers had run fish-cold eyes over the War Department, seeking out weak spots. When the State Department and Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Committee feuded, Harold Smith wooed them back to harmony. Before Presidential Adviser Samuel Rosenman reorganized war production, and cleaned up the defense-housing mess, he conferred chiefly with Smith. The executive orders with which President Roosevelt made and unmade war agencies, delegated power and took it away, were drawn up in Smith's office. And Harold Smith has the final say on Government...
...mobilization had been sidetracked by the usual scramble of power politics-and by the President's reluctance to set in motion such an upheaval. Then a fortnight ago four White House advisers (Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Budget Director Harold Smith, and Brain-Trusters Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and Anna Rosenberg) met in secret sessions, emerged with a final plan. Last week the President moved, named as chairman the man who had always hankered after the job. WPB's Sidney Hillman, who had also wanted the job, was shunted into a corner as "special assistant...