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Henry a Wallace — Part 4
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employment through bringing suall business into the Limelight, meshing middle.
class America into its economics future instead of leaving it in the hanés of the
big fellows.
This source said ha d@4€n'% beliove either “the railroad brot sherhoodg
xt
or Ha tisfoll and BiLT Hutcheson, of APL, would stand for Falloce in the Labor
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' Depar ten t.. It vag pointed out that Wallace is not tho property of tha Cro- that
they. took him_over,- rather “their the » rovor 36 2 noverthelags: he ‘would ba reel 93 |
“ae too leftieh for the big ripht wing segment in the union picture. Besides, A
thore ie nothing in the cards immediately +o indicate that the Labor Dopartment
4s anything more than a statistical agency, _
| While it is pessible that Rallace could: merge inte some new job
having to a vith international food distribution or the creation ef 60,000,000
jobs, his erionda now have the impression that Roosevelt has things too tanglad
up a8 it is to attempt the creation of a Cebinet-level office, which would
infringe on the prerogntives of soma Atministration stalwarts, Besides, they
think, the war his Roosevelt too pre-occupiad to. take on such a complicated task...
But again ten days ngo ~ for the second time » Franklin Roosevelt told
Wellace not to make plans to leave Washington after January 1. - After a-two-hour ~~
Tineheon chat, fiallace amerged silunt, but according to hia wontor, happy. And it
_ still appeared thet Jogs? Jonas would be cut out ef the Cabinet, have his f ace
OxSS i eer
saved with the five-billion dollar RRC. ere said Wallace" 8 man, had the |
, Vice-President about halfway into Jease Tope" chair elready.
The only fear was the ther the Predident ' "would remain as strong” once
the conservatives vegan to squavk. “Our source felt that nothing would save.
—Josse Jones's Cabinet job — “not aven if Wallace dropped dead", He also felt
‘that Henry would have no trouble with Senate confirmation. the delay ies probably
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