U.S. At War: U.S. At War, Jun. 28, 1943

A Baltimore woman wrote to Bernard Mannes Baruch last week: "I was in a market the other day and a, lot of women were complaining about the OPA and all its rationing rules, and finally the proprietor said: 'Well, I agree with you, but this fellow Baruch has been appointed to a job in Washington and he'll straighten everything out.'"

Bernie Baruch will not be such a miracle man. No one could be. But that is the kind of confidence, amounting to a fervent faith, that the U.S. has learned to place in Bernie Baruch,...

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