FDR Keeps Finger on War Agencies
Bob Considine details President Roosevelt's expansion of wartime agencies, their broad reach, and his tight personal oversight. He notes Roosevelt’s daily briefings, boundary setting, and mediation during interagency conflicts, framing the President as commander, administrator, and national leader guiding millions through war.
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FDR
Washington
Bob Considine
Roosevelt
Marth
Petr Harbor
Congress
Executive
Venizel
Tie Bass
John
Jane Doe
U.S
Bureau of the Budget
Nason
Opersonnmel
Entigestad
Council of Nation Defense Office of Emergency Management
Board of War Communications
Division of
Central Administrative Services
Foreign Economic Administration
National War Labor Board
Office of
Civilian Defense
Office of the Co
inter-American Affairs
Office of Defense Transport
Tlon
Office of Economic Stabilization
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Office of War Information
Office of War Mobilization
War Manpower Commission
War Production Board
Smelter War Plants Corporation
War Relocation Authority
War Shipping Administration
National Housing Agency
Office of Censorship
OPA
Petroleum Administration For War
President's War Relief Control Board
Joint Chiefs, of Staff
Office of Strategic Services
Pacific War Council
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United Nations
Information Board
White House
Proust
Vine Chit
Tisen
Senate Debates Service Vote Bill and Tax Committee
Washington reports Senate debates on a compromise federal service ballot bill for overseas servicemen contingent on state law, with passage outlook and leadership reorganization postponed. Other items include postwar tax planning, OPA gas coupon restrictions, and remarks on radio defamation by Rep Dies. President Roosevelt seeks manpower talks with WPB and Munitions chiefs as deferments policy faces review.
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Washington
Senate
Maonchy
Tom Connally
Di-Sexas
Hatch
Hoosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
WPB
Charles E. Wilson
Paul ¥. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
McNutt
Seleceive Service
Lewis B. Hers Shey
Democratic
Barkley
Roosevelt
Wallace
Rayburn
House
McCormark
Stator
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Keeps Court at White House Grounds
A fragment describes FDR in his study with aides and visitors, noting the unique access of a pet named Faila and the daily routines around the White House during wartime. The piece hints at upcoming wartime congressional activity and media access.
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Tlent
Gomdr
George Fox
White House
Iey
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Col Thomason Texas Marine Dies Author and Soldier
San Diego Calif March 13 Col John William Thomason 51 veteran marine corps officer and author died at the naval hospital after a brief illness. A Muntsville native and former Southwestern University Georgetown graduate he wrote Fixed Bayonets and a biography of Confederate general J B Stuart. A World War I veteran he served in Cuba Nicaragua and China and commanded a battalion of the fleet marine force in 1938 before his death. Survivors include his widow Leda Thomason a son Capt John W Thomason III USMC and eight siblings. The Texas capitol will observe a half staff funeral as Gov Stevenson lauded his service as soldier artist and writer.
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Texas Naval Militat, Marine Corps Branch
Charleston
S.C
J. B. Stuart
Cuba
Nicaragua
China
Hampton Roads
Dover
N. J
Washington
D.C
Fleet Marine
San Diego
Smmphibious Training Command
Pastifte Slot
Mas Leda Thomason
John Www
Austin
Capitol Mag
John Wiliam Thomason
Texas
iGovernine
Simple Funeral Set for Cobb
Irvin Cobb humorist and author died Friday. A private funeral service was planned today with Dr Kehm Sutherland Sonnel reading the 23rd Psalm and a Stevenson verse per Cobb’s request. The widow’s illness delays plans for the burial in Paducah, Kentucky.
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Cobb
Kehm Sutherland Sonnel
Fifth Avening Presbyterian Church
Robert Louis Stevenson
Gobb
Captain to Discuss Benito Juarez WACS
Capt John Denél, air WAC recruiting officer in San Antonio, will explain the organization of the first Latin American Air WAC squadron to members of the San Antonio Advertising class at noon Tuesday. Francisco Fierros and Dora Salas were the first two women accepted for membership in the Benito Juarez Air WAC squad.
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Francisco Fierros
Dora Salas
Benito Juarez
John ¥. Denél
Air Wac
San Antonio
Denel
Lawmaker seeks to extend OPA powers and soldier vote
Agriculture Secretary Wickard testified before a Senate committee denying he tried to inject the Rural Electrification Administration into politics or interfere with its policies. He claimed he urged recruitments to reduce dissension within the Agency and to apply differing administrative ability to end disputes.
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Ings
OPA
REA
Agriculture
Wicksud
Ielding
Senate
Ils
Harry B. Slattery
Wickard
Slattery
Soldier Killed, 6 Hurt of Dallas
A Dallas party including Pfc Eugene Jackman 22 Camp Howze and Aviation Cadets Thomas Coston and J H Cevengras 20 Corsicans were in an auto crash that killed 27 year old Sgt Waller A Whisenant and injured six others Mozelly Lynch 21 Dallas was critically hurt in the underpass collision near an overpass pillar yesterday.
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Dallas
Mann W
Waller A. Whisenant
Gamp
Howze
Galhesville
Mozelly Lynch
Pfc
Eugene Jackman
Camp Howze
Thomas Coston
J. H. Cevengras
Gripsholm to Bring 524 Americans Home From Europe
Swedish exchange ship Gripsholm to arrive in Jersey City this week with 524 U.S. repatriates from Germany and Nazi occupied France. The ship sailed from Lisbon last week and is due about March 15. On board are 35 sick and wounded POWs and one wounded seaman, plus 149 American officials including the American chargé d’affaires in Vienna. Also aboard: 103 Latin American officials.
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Jersey City
N. J
Germany
France
State Department
Gripsholm
Lisbon
S. Pluckney S Tuck
A Vieny
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