THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW Roosevelt AFTER four weeks of fishing, loafing, cruising, and sunning himself at Barney Baruch's 23,000-acre estate on the coast of South Carolina, President Roosevelt was back...
...Clark: "The resistance to the Senate bill is, in my judgment, based entirely upon the hatred of certain Congressmen for the colored portion of our armed forces...
...Clark, one-time national commander of the American Legion, but has run into a snag in the House...
...Joe Star-nes, Alabama Democrat, was defeated for renomina-tion...
...In addition, Rep...
...In Alabama, Sen...
...policies announced from week to week Patterson and month to month on inductions into the armed forces as indefensible from any point of view...
...The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution by Sen...
...The U. S. Senate last week approved legislation designed to save the $50,000,000-a-year Federal school lunch program which had been ordered destroyed by the House...
...They are so unwilling to allow the colored troops to have the unemployment insurance to which they are entitled that they would be desirous of withholding absolutely deserved benefits from all of our troops...
...Lewis B. Hershey, director of the Selective Service System...
...The council declared that "the worst injury to public morale on the home front has been wrought by military authorities who, in the eagerness to secure enactment of national service legislation, have issued a long series of conflicting, confusing, and upsetting statements and regulations...
...Support for the measure came from leading spokesmen for the nation's military establishments who have been thwarted thus far in their effort to get Congress to pass a National Service Act empowering the Government to draft all able-bodied men and women...
...Although he said that all traces of the President's troublesome siege of bronchitis had disappeared, Admiral Mclntire said he would seek confirmation of that conclusion by putting the Chief Executive through a complete medical examination this week...
...In particular," the statement said, "the executive council regards the apparently haphazard and contradictory...
...The attempt by Rep...
...In a letter to Walter D. Fuller, chairman of the NAM group, Patton asserted that its purpose is to create a "stacked private planning group which can quickly become a conspiracy against the public interest...
...In a speech in New York this week, Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National committee, did not say that the President was a candidate for a fourth term, but put it this way: "The people of the United States are determined that Franklin D. Roosevelt shall complete the assignment which destiny has given him," and that "whatever might be the purely personal desires of the President, the Democrats and millions of other Americans will demand that a great historical process be completed without interruption...
...Casualties...
...James G. Patton, president of the National Farmers Union, charged last week that the Postwar Conference established by the National Association of Manufacturers was the central part of a "well-financed, nationwide effort to subvert the will of the whole people...
...In reply, Atty...
...John Rankin, Mississippi Democrat, to weaken the "GI Bill of Rights," an omnibus measure designed to guarantee social and economic benefits for returning veterans, brought sharp denunciation last week from Sen...
...Of this total, 45,567 have been killed, 74,211 injured, 43,006 are missing, and 35,057 are prisoners of war...
...Protest...
...The "increasing domination" of Communists on the executive committee of the Free German Movement in Britain may result in collapse of the organization of anti-Nazi Germans, according to a London dispatch to the Chicago Sun...
...Quinine...
...Barkley thought he was weakening the resolution, he is mistaken," Byrd snapped...
...Every Republican voted for the inquiry, but the Democrats were divided, 116 to 59, against the resolution...
...A 100-year search for a formula which would produce synthetic quinine ended last week when two 27-year-old Harvard chemists announced perfection of an artificial substitute which was hailed as one of the greatest scientific achievements in a century...
...Sens...
...The House vote for an investigation was 300 to 60...
...The injunction will remain in effect until a final determination of the issues is made...
...Public opinion was sharply divided on the merits' of the Ward controversy...
...Costello said that Selective Service should need "few, if any, fathers over 26 this year," because upward of half a million men under 26 now holding occupational draft deferments will be inducted during the year...
...Pepper And Hill Win If the President were studying the political barometer with his accustomed shrewdness before making up his mind, he must have been somewhat encouraged last week by the results of the primary elections in Florida and Alabama...
...The Pepper victory showed the Roosevelt Administration still strong in Florida, but not nearly so strong as it has been...
...In legal arguments before Judge Holly, counsel for Ward's contended that the President had assumed "despotic powers," and that he had no authority to take over such a commercial concern without specific authorization from Congress...
...A vote of 63 to 1 in the Senate this week extended Lend-Lease for 1 year...
...An official order posted at an advanced American base in New Guinea contained the following prohibition: "Hereafter no member of this mess personnel shall curse the cook, either on or off duty...
...The head of the liberal farm group contended that "at present the greatest danger to our democracy is within, from among groups that seek to control and dictate to the people's representatives...
...Moreover, political observers noted that delegate candidates pledged to nominate Virginia's anti-New Deal Sen...
...President Roosevelt last week called on Congress to appropriate an additional $3,450,-570,000 to finance Lend-Lease operations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945...
...Harry Byrd won in six contests against delegate candidates pledged to a fourth term for the President...
...Aroused because the AFL executive council failed to take a "yes" or "no" vote, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, this week withdrew the UMW's petition for reaffiliatioa with the Federation and demanded immediate re-turn of a $60,000 check which accompanied the ap-plication...
...Injunction Extended Meanwhile, Federal Judge William H. Holly extended the temporary order restraining Ward officials from interfering with Government control...
...Meanwhile, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor issued a statement denouncing Army and Navy officials for statements on various aspects of the manpower problem...
...Nomination is tantamount to election in both states...
...Roosevelt might decide against running has picked up considerable backing among Washington and Wall Street dopesters, but the White House has scrupulously avoided giving any indication of whether such rumors were based on fact or fancy...
...Alben Barkley, Kentucky Democrat and majority floorleader, won acceptance of an amendment directing the investigating committee to study the labor disputes at Ward's that led to Government seizure of the mail order house...
...Leading liberals and socialists have resigned from the movement because they feel that Communist pressure resulted in passage of a resolution endorsing a Soviet scheme to compensate Poland for surrender of territory to Russia by allowing her to annex eastern German territories...
...Byrd Congress To Probe Ward Case Congressional investigation of the spectacular dispute at Montgomery, Ward & Company was assured last week when both houses voted separate inquiries...
...Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the President's personal physician, made this report on his patient: "My own feeling is that we gained everything expected from a four weeks' rest, and I am perfectly satisfied with his physical condition...
...NAM Blasted...
...Starnes has been a bitter critic of many Administration policies and is a member of the Dies Committee...
...Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, who has long advocated universal conscription of all adults for farm and factory work, endorsed the Brewster-Bailey* bill...
...John M. Costello, California Democrat who is chairman of the House military subcommittee on draft deferments, sought this week to reassure anxious families...
...Lunch...
...Although there was widespread criticism of the arrogant attitude of Sewell Avery, president of Montgomery, Ward & Company, there was a strong feeling, too, that the Administration had bungled its assignment, especially in its, calling of troops to eject Avery forcibly...
...Bennett Clark, Missouri Democrat...
...Major interest centered around the Brewster-Bailey bill which would subject to induction for assignment to special labor battalions an estimated 1,000,000 4-F registrants and men 38 to 45 years of age who have quit or failed to obtain essential war jobs...
...Cooks are human, too, and are doing their best...
...Asked by newsmen whether the President, should he decide to run for office again, was physically up to another election campaign, Mclntire significantly refused to answer, thus adding more mystery to the President's political plans...
...Harry Byrd, Virginia Democrat, calling for an investigation by that body, but only after Sen...
...A statement by Rep...
...American war casualties now total 197,841, the War and Navy Departments disclosed last week...
...He charged there were "imperative in-structions to refuse the UMW application by the New Deal politicians opposed to unity in the ranks of labor...
...The rumor that Mr...
...Claude Pepper of Florida 'and Sen...
...As it stands now, the measure is stronger than it was and should lead to correction of legislation under which this seizure of a private business was made...
...Withdrawal...
...Lister Hill, Alabama, militant New Dealers, captured the Democratic nomination for reelection despite powerful and well-financed opposition...
...The total available would be increased to $7,188,893,000 if Congress authorizes the President to spend unexpended balances of previous Lend-Lease expenditures...
...The measure, sponsored by 82 Senators, passed the Senate under the leadership of Sen...
...So did Maj...
...Pepper, who had been accused by his opponents of being a "stooge" for the White House and a believer in race equality, squeezed out victory by getting some 8,000 votes more than his four opponents, thus obviating the need for a run-off primary contest...
...Lend-Lease...
...A 'Scandalous' Muddle The manpower muddle was back in the news this week...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW Roosevelt AFTER four weeks of fishing, loafing, cruising, and sunning himself at Barney Baruch's 23,000-acre estate on the coast of South Carolina, President Roosevelt was back in Washington this week—rested, refreshed, and greatly improved in health and appearance...
...Francis Biddle argued that the mail order establishment sold goods necessary to the war effort and that in wartime the President has a "great reserve of constitutional power" from which no business is immune...
...Hill ran 25,000 votes ahead of his anti-Roosevelt opponent...
...Said Sen...
...Lewis described the AFL's failure to act as "characteristic servility to the Roosevelt Admin-istration...
...Order...
...Names And Notes In The News Discrimination...
...If Sen...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 20
