Washington Roundup of politics and postwar unease
The column surveys postwar Washington maneuvers with Tom Corcoran backing law partner D. Worth Clark for interior secretary, Truman quips about presidents as liars, Ed Flynn faces trouble as NY Democratic committeeman contender James Roe, and other notes on Galbraith, UNRRA, and Pentagon shifts. It also mentions GIs in India arming for riots, Byrnes offering a Germany post, and Moscow treaty tensions shaping cabinet debates.
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Washington
Tom Corcoran
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
Harold Ickes
Interior
Clark
Truman
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
United States
Bronx
Ed Flynn
FDR
James Roe
Queens County
LaGuardia
Flynn
New York
Moscow
Kremlin
Vatican
Cordell Hull
Sumner Welles
North Green Street
Broadview Street
Wichita, Kans
G.i.s In
India
U.S. Army
G.i.s
Byrnes
Ken Galbraith
OPA
Fortune Magazine
Germany
Anglo-American Palestine Commission
Jimmy Dunn
London
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Italy
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota
Havenner
California
U. S
Pacific Islands
Muddle in War Surplus Sales Shows Federal Disarray
The Washington bureau reports a breakdown in surplus war property management with eight agencies at 100 sites, conflicting authority, and no central inventory. Veterans face delays and inflated prices as War Assets Corp formation drags and policy clashes persist.
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Washington Bureau
Eye St
N. W
Jim
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
U.S. Maritime Commission
State Department
Department of Agriculture
Federal Works Administration
Federal Housing Authority
Department of the Interior
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
W. Stuart Symington
Truman
War Assets Corporation
Edmund B. Gregory
Quartermaster-General
Army
Gregory
Symington
Navy
Philadelphia
OPA
War Plants Corporation
RFC Disposal Agency
Department of Commerce
Navy Material Redistribution Office
RFC
Surplus Property Administration
There Is No Greatest in Sport Says Grantland Rice
The writer argues that the word greatest cannot apply to any sport, athlete, team, or horse. He lists famous names across baseball, football, golf, boxing, and racing and contends conditions and eras prevent any one from being the absolute best. He asserts unknowns with luck or breaks could surpass celebrated figures. The piece defends a standard of "good" over "great" in sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth
Jim Thorpe
Pudge Heffelfinger
Bronko Nagurski
Red Grange
Cy Young
Mathewson
Johnson
Alexander
Bobby Jones
Walter Hagen
Byron Nelson
Harry Vardon
Dempsey
Jeffries
Louis
Army
Notre Dame
Minnesota
Southern California
Pittsburgh
Alabama
Michigan
Yale
Cubs
Athletics
Yankees
Doc Blanchard
Bill Daly
Nagurski
Blanchard
Sammy Baugh
Don Hutson
Greasy Neale
Sid Luckman
Baugh
Hutson
Greasy
van Buren
Bert Bell
Steelers
Bill Dudley
Clint Frank
Glenn Davis
Hagen
Jones
Arthur Duffy
Bernie Wefers
Duffy
Weters
Jesse Owen
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Sol Bloom
Egypt
House Rules Committee
UNRRA
Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rules Committee
Charles Eaton
New Jersey
Foreign Affairs Committee
Adolph Sabath
Illinois
Clarence Brown
Ohio
Brown
Sol
Merry-Go-Round
Maury Maverick
Far East
MacArthur
Japan
G.I. Joes
Korea
War Assets Corp
Miami Beach
Fla
New England
Miami
Patsy Millspaugh
Elaine Brenner
Joy Berkstresser
Beverly Cramer
Fred Toms
Hendersonville
N. C
Seven Seas
Pat Arsenault
China
George C. Marshall
Chiang Kai-shek
Mme. Chiang
Marshall
Birmingham
England
Royal College of Surgeons
Medical Science
Cranmore Mountain
North Conway
N. H
Boston
Mars
Axis
Sinbad
Coast Guard
Grantland Rice
Walter Shead
WNU
W. A. Otto
Park Avenue
Union City
Denver
Colo
M. Bartrag
Iowa Falls
ITO
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Newton
Dept
Hollywood
Mie
Doans
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