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...three-man Directive Committee made the appointments following an examination of the Freshman class list and school records, and consultations with the proctors and Freshman Deans. The Dudley representative has not been announced, but will be chosen later this week...
...plan will be put before the new three-man surplus-property board (TiME, Oct. 2). Washington gossiped that one of the jobs, and the chairmanship, will go to Sam H. Husbands, 53, president of Defense Plant Corp. (RFC Boss Jesse Jones once said Husbands "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S.") Another job is expected to go to James Sheppard, Los Angeles attorney. Lieut. Colonel Joseph P. Woodlock, onetime executive of the Crucible Steel Co., now executive assistant to Will Clayton, is an outside choice for the third job. But Washington also gossiped that the President...
Almost all producing mines require miners to strip as they leave their jobs, undergo inspections. In some cases, suspicious-looking miners are Xrayed. Nevertheless gold still disappears. The commission had nothing better to propose than the appointment of a three-man commission to "discourage persons from engaging in this business...
Perturbed, the skittery Congress last week passed a surplus property bill which clipped Mr. Clayton's power (see above). Where he ruled alone, a three-man board will henceforth dispose of the estimated $100 billion in surplus war goods. Previously, Clayton had informed Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes that he would not be one of the three; he wanted to quit. His reason: Congress has turned surplus property disposal into a political grab bag. The U.S., he felt, should get what cash it can out of selling surpluses; it should not let them be parceled out among Government agencies...
Will Clayton was not alone in this view: Jimmy Byrnes was dead-set against the three-man board, and Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch had personally phoned Congressmen, begging them to drop it. Georgia's Senator Walter George called the bill almost impossible to administer. New York's bell-shaped Mayor LaGuardia nut-shelled all the complaints; he told a Senate committee that the bill could be fixed by "one little amendment. Strike out every thing after the enacting clause...