THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE first phase of the Government reorganization expected since President Truman took office materialized last week when he 1) asked for broad authority to reshuffle agencies and...
...The far-ranging measure, which proposes to set up a national system of social insurance and extend benefits to 15,C" 00 more persons, including farm and domestic \vor..ers, seeks to protect American families against major economic hazards, principally the cost of medical care and the loss of income during unemployment or illness, according to an analysis presented to the Senate by Sen...
...Anderson is chairman of the special House committee which has been struggling with the problem of food shortages...
...Wayne, Ind., returned an indictment against the Durham Manufacturing Corporation of that city and its officials for conspiring to conceal defects in shells, rocket bombs, and propeller shafts delivered to the U. S. Navy...
...Twenty-four hours earlier the President had announced his acceptance of the resignations of At-ty...
...Lewis B. Schwellenbach of the State of Washington, who has been a stalwart supporter of the New Deal in its active period...
...Wagner...
...Womb-To-Tomb' President Truman's reshuffling of the Cabinet shared home-front headlines this week with the introduction in both houses of Congress of a vastly broadened "womb-to-tomb" social security program introduced by Sens...
...In private conversation, all the delegates questioned have agreed that the organization itself will not be able to prevent a major war...
...Meanwhile, continuing disputes among the Big 3— Britain, Russia, and the United States—have led to revival of discussion of an early meeting of the Messrs...
...4. The measure provides for unemployment compensation and temporary disability insurance up to $30 a week for 26 weeks and total disability and survivors' insurance up to $120 a month...
...The FEPC bill would declare it an unfair employment practice to refuse to hire, to discharge, or to discriminate in compensation because of race, creed, color, national origin or ancestry...
...President Truman last week dispatched Joseph E. Davis to London and Harry Hopkins to Moscow for preliminary negotiations...
...Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico Democrat, a 3-term member of Congress who is identified as a liberal...
...The Conference Thus Far At San Francisco, where the conference of the United Nations was moving into its final stage, delegates wrestled this week with the most controversial issue of them all—the power of any one of the Big 5 nations to veto any important act by the rest of the proposed international organization...
...Francis Biddle, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard...
...Representatives of the small and medium nations sought repeatedly to modify iron-clad domination by the Big 5, but they appeared to be running into a stone wall...
...Milestone...
...Cartels...
...Principal effects will be to throw 200,000 workers out of jobs and release substantial quantities of steel and aluminum for civilian use...
...Free choice of physician and hospital would be guaranteed and none of the current plans would be disturbed...
...The broadcasts also stressed the need for a Japanese leader like Josef Stalin and for an "inspiration" such as Sovietism to combat the empire's greatest crisis and "regenerate Japan as Sovietism did Russia," Prospects...
...3. The Federal Government would launch a 950 million dollar, 10-year program to help states build and improve hospitals and health centers...
...Production of from 1,200,000 to 2,000,-000 civilian passenger cars by July, 1946, 200,000 of them in the last 6 months of 1945, and the manufacture of 530,000 new, popularly-priced refrigerators this year has been approved by the War Production Board, J. A. Krug, WPB chairman, announced...
...Stalin, Churchill, and Truman...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE first phase of the Government reorganization expected since President Truman took office materialized last week when he 1) asked for broad authority to reshuffle agencies and bureaus and abolish those not needed, and 2) announced 3 major changes in his Cabinet...
...Anderson's predecessor, Claude R. Wickard, was given the consolation prize of head of the Rural Electrification Administration...
...The U. S. Census Bureau estimates that the population of this country had reached 138,-955,469 on Jan...
...REPUBLICAN—Taft (Ohio...
...The broadcast quoted officials as admitting the growth of peace sentiment and declared that arrests had been ordered for "any speech that might cause disorder in the national unity...
...31 the United States had delivered goods and services worth $38,971,797,000 to the Allies...
...The Company, which has won both Army and Navy E awards, is controlled by a holding concern headed by Ernest M. Morris, Republican national committeeman from Indiana...
...G. Farben, Rhein, Metall, Roechling, and Krugg...
...Draft...
...A Federal Grand Jury at Ft...
...PROGRESSIVE—La Follette (Wisconsin...
...2. Benefits of health insurance similar to those now available in present voluntary hospital plans would be made available to every citizen...
...Frederick Kuh, one of the shrewdest correspondents in the business, canvassed the opinion of many delegates and observers and came up with this report: 'There is general satisfaction that the immediate, short-term job of building the machinery for the new league is today as good as accomplished...
...Sofina is a huge public utility company founded in Brussels, registered in Panama City, keeping 'its books in Cuba, its managerial staff in New York, its technical staff in Lisbon...
...This move drew prompt fire in the Senate which had voted only recently to separate REA from the Department of Agriculture in order to get that agency out of Wickard's hands...
...One of the most honest appraisals of the work of the San Francisco conference thus far appeared last week in the Chicago Sun...
...Broadcasts...
...Major provisions are these: 1. Employer and employe contributions to the social insurance fund would be increased from 1 to 4 per cent...
...In a special message to Congress, Mr...
...SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE — Rep...
...Japanese broadcasts received in this country last week told of efforts of the government to quell "peace agitation...
...Voting against the bill were: DEMOCRATS—Pepper (Florida), Ellender (Louisiana), Johnston (South Carolina), and Fulbright (Arkansas...
...Names And Notes In The News Lend-Lease...
...The Interstate Commerce Commission passed a major milestone in U. S. transportation history when it issued a history-making order prescribing a uniform scale of freight rates for the entire country east of the Rocky Mountains...
...5. The present, temporary U. S. Employment Service would be established on a permanent basis...
...Schwellenbach has the backing of virtually all branches of organized labor because of his progressive record as a Senator...
...Population...
...In his speech to the Senate, Sen...
...Krug also announced that the country's distilleries will be free again in July to return to the production of whisky and neutral spirits...
...Among German companies attending the meeting, Voorhis said, were: "I...
...Great Britain was the largest single beneficiary with $12,-775,000,000...
...Jerry Voorhis, California Democrat, presented evidence to the House of Representatives last week showing that German cartel interests have been engaged with "some of the largest of all American concerns" in building up an international cartel system that will revive Germany's war potential...
...In the form in which it was being sought by the big Powers, this provision would permit any one of the Big 5 to escape punishment of any kind if it engages in aggression...
...REPUBLICANS—Aiken (Vermont), Ball (Minnesota), Smith (New Jersey), Morse (Oregon), and Don-nell (Missouri...
...An exponent of "abundant production" of food, Anderson recently said: "The way to kill off black markets and food price inflation is abundant production, and the time to plan abundant production is now...
...Showdown Over FEPC A showdown battle over fair employment practices became a certainty last week when the Senate's Education and Labor Committee voted 12 to 5 in favor of legislation which would establish a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission...
...Wagner pointed out that even if full employment is achieved after the war, it "still does not solve the economic problems of widows and orphans, the aged, the sick, and the disabled...
...The whole unemployment insurance program, now a state-Federal plan, would be completely nationalized...
...Compensation would be graded on the basis of salary and number of dependents...
...Father* will also receive more consideration under the new rules...
...In their places he appointed the following: SECRETARY OF LABOR—Federal Judge and former Sen...
...Bretton Woods...
...Robert Wagner, New York, and James Murray, Montana, and Rep...
...In a subsequent statement, Krug declared that cutbacks in war contracts eventually will put an end to the jobs of "only" 6,600,000 persons...
...The Bretton Woods program to establish a huge international bank of reconstruction and develop an international monetary stabilization plan survived its first Congressional test last week when the House Banking and Currency Committee approved it by a 23 to 3 vote...
...Dennis Chavez, New Mexico Democrat, who has been leading the fight for the bill, said he was "not afraid" of a filibuster because "the majority party has come out for an FEPC and the Presidential candidates in the last campaign spoke for it and were in favor of it...
...1 of this year—an increase of 7,286,000 over the census of 1940...
...They warn against such a belief and call it an illusion...
...When it comes to assessing the value of the machine, this satisfaction is tempered by some doubts and some negative judgments...
...Meanwhile, the Army announced it will stop production of about 17,000 planes scheduled for the next 18 months...
...Selective Service announced that draft quotas ofjnen 30 years and older who are engaged in "useful" work will be eased and that younger men will take up the main burden of the fight against Japan...
...Declaring that meetings have been held in neutral countries, he said that "Daniel Heineman, an American citizen and chief representative of the Sofina Company, was a moving figure in a meeting which took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in June, 1944...
...Russia was second with a total of $8,-410,000,000 which included more than 13,000 planes, 6,800 tanks, and $1,312,000,000 worth of grains, cereals, sugar, meats, fats, and oils...
...Indictment...
...These Committee members voted for the bill: DEMOCRATS — Chavez, Thomas (Utah), Tunnell (Delaware), Guffey (Pennsylvania), Walsh (Massachusetts), and Murray (Montana...
...Truman asked for legislative authority to enable him to make the executive branch of the Federal Government "more businesslike and efficient" by eliminating overlapping and duplication and providing for consolidation wherever possible...
...John D. Dingell, Michigan, all Democrats...
...In a Lend-Lease report to Congress last week, President Truman disclosed that up to Mar...
...Southern Senators have threatened to filibuster against the measure when it reaches the floor, but Sen...
...ATTORNEY GENERAL — Tom Clark of Texas, chief of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice who had made a noteworthy record in his former berth as chief of the Department's Anti-Trust Division...
...6. Also provided are Fe d e r a 1 grants for child health and maternity services and for public assistance benefits to the needy, aged, blind, and to dependent children...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 23
