THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW ASERIES of dramatic developments in Washington last week provided the nation with (1) an historic collision between Congress and the President, and (2) a $2,315,200,000 tax bill...
...The multi-millionaire cotton broker was an active member of the old Liberty League and contributed $7,500 to its fight against the Wagner Labor Relations Act...
...Army surgeons returning from the world's battlefronts have reported on many a case where modern plastic surgery has saved soldiers and sailors from permanent disfigurement...
...President Roosevelt dismissed him as a "chronic liar...
...covering the shining area...
...New York's Gov...
...Congressional tempers, worn thin by repeated White House efforts to put Congress in the hole and enhance the President's reelection chances, snapped completely and precipitated a major political brawl...
...As Labor, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods, described it, the Baruch plan "creates a heaven for business, particularly Big Business...
...Last week, furious at Pearson's charge that he votes the tax convictions of Tory business interests, Sen...
...James F. Byrnes, assistant to Mr...
...Generous arrangements to take care of business men are proposed, on the theory that, if they are made prosperous and contented, some of the benefits will trickle down to the nation's producers...
...Douglas MacArthur and for Harold Stas-sen, on leave from the governorship of Minnesota, but neither has announced his candidacy...
...Thomas E. Dewey, easily the strongest contender, abruptly directed Wisconsin delegate candidates running under his banner to cease using his name (which most of them refused to do) since he was not a candidate for the nomination...
...The long-smouldering feud between Mr...
...Charles L. MeNary, Oregon, who died suddenly in Florida last week...
...There are nearly 8,500,000 in these two groups—3,834,000 deferred for occupational reasons and 4,645,000 for dependency...
...It seems passing strange that French Senegalese or whole British divisions from India have been fighting so superbly with our allies, and that Russians with low educational qualifications have been the heroes of this war...
...GOP Loses Wise Counselor The long-run political repercussions of the Barkley-Roosevelt exchange were difficult to analyze, although most thoughtful observers predicted the Republicans would be doomed to bitter disappointment if they expected any substantial dividends...
...Maj...
...7 were 157,865, of whom 35,005 were killed, 54,867 wounded, and the remainder missing or prisoners of war, * * * Jim Crow Army...
...The Senate Civil Liberties Committee exposed him as a financial backer, through a subsidiary firm, of the Associated Farmers, anti-labor, anti-progressive organization financed by packers, bankers, and publishers on the West Coast...
...Meanwhile, decisive majorities in both Houses of Congress overrode the President's tax bill veto...
...Sen...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull has called him an "unmitigated and congenital" liar...
...Fish, who led a colored infantry regiment in World War I, presented a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson which denied discrimination is being practiced on Negro soldiers, but asserted their efficiency ratings were so low that "many of the Negro units have been unable to master efficiently the techniques of modern weapons...
...He rushed a "Dear Alben" telegram to the Ken-tuckian denying that his veto message was an attack on the integrity of Congress...
...v The Baruch-Hancock plan (explained in last week's issue of The Progressive) was submitted to the Administration by Bernard Baruch, former Wall Street operater, and John M. Hancock, New York investment banker...
...The Baruch program is rooted in the basic assumption that left to itself (except when it needs to borrow from the...
...Hope...
...Total Army and Navy casualties up to Fejb...
...Mollified, Barkley wrote a friendly letter to the President...
...Barkley Urges Harmony Resting at a secret retreat away from Washington, the President busied himself in a frantic effort to prevent the Barkley episode from wrecking his political plans...
...The prospect of providing part of the quota by relaxing induction requirements was pretty well demolished by a special medical commission which reported that existing standards could not be reduced "without impairing the efficiency" of the armed services and that no more limited service inductions are needed...
...Jerry Voorhis, California Democrat who exposed the Navy Department's Elk Hills oil contract, took the floor of the House of Representatives last week to charge that the new Arabian oil deal would benefit mostly the six major oil companies whose officials occupy high posts in the Roosevelt Administration...
...Stimson promised that Negro troops will be given a chance to "demonstrate their worth in actual combat...
...What the United States really got in the way of a land lease, Taylor contended, was "for the most part 750 acres of shallow ocean water, which we filled in at a fabulous cost and which now, in its finished form, belongs neither to the United States nor to Bermuda," but to the British Crown...
...At a time when they need wise counselors as never before, Congressional Republicans lost one of their wisest: Sen...
...Warning that the "net result" of the deal would be to "strengthen immeasurably the monopoly positions already held by a handful of major oil companies," Voorhis asserted that "monopoly practices are, next only to the dictatorships of Japan and Germany, the greatest enemy of democracy, freedom, and peace...
...Walter George, Georgia Democrat and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, called Pearson "a skunk" and a "cowardly...
...Henry J. Taylor, correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, reported last week the presence of a joker in the destroyer-bases deal we made with Great Britain in 1940...
...Roosevelt, and a Baruch protege, rushed White House adoption of the plan, apparently in an effort to head off Congressional action on a reconversion plan which would give Congress some voice in the gigantic job of reconverting America's economic machine to peacetime production when the war ends...
...Roosevelt and Congress exploded into the open when the President vetoed the tax bill and sent the lawmakers a message in which he characterized the legislation as "wholly ineffective" and a relief measure "not for the needy but for the greedy...
...Government), Big Business knows best how to run the country's economy...
...In the Senate, the vote was 72 to 14, 39 Democrats participating with the majority...
...Thus, it had become apparent at mid-week that the "manpower deficit" would have to be made up from (1) those with occupational deferments, especially in the younger classes, and (2) fathers...
...In Wisconsin, where the first major test is scheduled for Apr...
...It is this program which is to be administered by Clayton and Brig...
...Alben Barkley, Kentucky Democrat who has been the Administration's ever-faithful servant and spokesman in the Senate, resigned as Majority Leader—and was promptly reelected—and delivered a blistering hour-long denunciation of the President's veto...
...While there was mounting impatience in the nation at the way in which the Roosevelt Administration was running the home show, there was little affirmative enthusiasm for the GOP...
...Hamilton Fish, New York Republican, charged in the House of Representatives last week that virtually no Negro troops have been engaged in combat after 26 months of war...
...Joker...
...Barkley, his face flushed with anger, accused Mr...
...The deal, which obligates the Government to build a $150,000,000 pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea in return for a 25 per cent discount on 1,000,000,-000 barrels of oil, is bound to create international risks for the Ameri...
...This week, as the Army revealed a 200,000-man deficit in the draft, the Administration announced that it will have to resort to sterner methods to recruit manpower...
...4 with a wide-open race for delegates to the Republican National Convention, Wendell L. Willkie is the only avowed candidate...
...Dewey Says 'No' (Maybe) Meanwhile, the GOP Presidential nomination remained a little sought prize...
...Skunk...
...This incident typified the planless-ness and lack of coordination which have marked the Administration's handling of the critical manpower problem...
...I do not propose to take this unjustified assault lying down...
...Just as he was extolling the benefits that have been derived from occupational deferments, word arrived that President Roosevelt, without consulting or notifying his manpower chief, had ordered a review of all such occupational deferments with a view to making more men available to the armed forces...
...Deficit In The Draft Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, was conducting a press conference one day last week...
...You and I may differ, and have differed on important measures, but this does not mean we question one another's good faith," the President wrote...
...In the House, the vote was 299 to 95, with 99 Democrats joining in the repudiation of the White House...
...Roosevelt of making "a calculated and deliberate assault on the integrity of every member of the Congress of the United States...
...His managers realize that he must make a great splash in Wisconsin next month if he expects to keep his candidacy alive, and now that he is the only avowed candidate^ anything less than a sweep of a big majority of Wisconsin's 24 delegates would damage his prospects greatly...
...1. More than half the draft registrants now being called are flunking the physical examinations, draft officials reported...
...Tories Head Baruch Plan The uproar over the Barkley affair tended to divert public attention from the fact that the Roosevelt Administration has actually adopted the Baruch-Hancock plan for postwar conversion of industry and has placed administration of the program in the hands of one of the country's most reactionary business men, William L. Clayton, said to be the biggest cotton broker in the world...
...can people, Voorhis charged...
...Clayton's appointment has shocked progressive forces in Washington...
...Such you must know was not my intention...
...Frank T. Hines, ultra-conservative head of the Veterans Administration...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW ASERIES of dramatic developments in Washington last week provided the nation with (1) an historic collision between Congress and the President, and (2) a $2,315,200,000 tax bill which, together with existing revenues, sent the total anticipated tax yield for the year to $42,239,200,000...
...I fervently trust that this incident may be instrumental in bringing the executive and legislative departments closer together in fullest cooperation," the Kentuckian wrote his Chief...
...Drew Pearson, Washington gossip columnist, has been called names by experts...
...The armed services have called on him, he said, to supply 11,300,000 persons by July 1, as compared with a net strength of 10,600,000 on Feb...
...Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, disclosed that draft demands are becoming "tougher and tougher" and that the coun#y was "scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel...
...Names And Notes In The News Oil Deal...
...Delegate slates are entered for Gen...
...Casualties...
...Meanwhile, Willkie booked a series of campaign addresses for Wisconsin and the Wall Street cash register began to make welcome noises for the boys who are drumming up the votes...
...Recalling the gallant fighting record of Negro troops in 1917-1918, Fish replied: "Many American Negroes will resent bitterly this broad indictment of their people and the discrimination against them...
...His New York friends interpreted this political double-talk as meaning that he did not want to risk a primary contest and was a candidate only in the sense that he would accept the nomination if it were thrust upon him...
...So rapid has the advance been there is now hope that bald-headed men may be able to cover their pates with hair by pulling up the fringes of hair from lower edges of the scalp and completely...
...MeNary, a Senator since 1917, exerted a progressive influence on his Republican colleagues and led them ably and shrewdly along many a difficult political trail...
Vol. 8 • March 1944 • No. 10
