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...exciting days of its birth and its blessing by Franklin Roosevelt, got to work on Capitol Hill. Its future now looked a little clearer. This was a Congress full of vim & vinegar, eager to get on with the war, busting to assert its independence, and judging by the temper of many members, eager to throw its weight in constructive rather than destructive fashion. Of party politics there would be plenty, but each side had a shrewd notion that the successful way to make political hay was to beat the other in getting on with an effective, efficient...
...Chicago's least-known citizens is short, silver-haired Charles Arthur Tilt, 65, who lives in a swanky Gold Coast apartment, is an expert yachtsman, golfer and skeetshooter, is the owner of a cannon-cracker temper. He is also founder, mainspring and president of smart Diamond T Motor Car Co., which last week estimated its 1942 sales 125% over last year to a record $100,000,000. Diamond T had just announced nine months' profits up 45% to $1,063,000-quite a contrast to the 34% drop in the combined profits of competitors, Mack Trucks and Yellow...
...employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed a wrench, roared a sailorful of oaths as he battered off a headlight...
...first time that Ralph Coghlan's Irish temper had got him into the news. Three years ago he got so editorially inflamed about a raw acquittal in a St. Louis courtroom, he found himself, charged with contempt of court. This brought a 20-day jail sentence (later reversed). Few months later, when Franklin Roosevelt traded the 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Editor Coghlan ripped off an editorial titled Dictator Roosevelt Commits an Act of War, bought space in New York and Washington papers to advertise his views...
...temper of U.S. participation in the war was increasing, but from the people and the press came demands for more action abroad (a second front), for sterner measures at home (too much was shelved until after elections). In a historic speech Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to pass the anti-inflation bill-"or else." While Congress wrangled, he took his two weeks' "secret" trip through the country. On his return, he signed the bill. He also chastised Administration spokesmen who said the U.S. was losing...