At last Harry Truman found two men to fill top wartime administrative jobs that had gone begging for months:
¶ Michael V. DiSalle, 42, yam-shaped Democratic mayor of Toledo, was named to the $16,000-a-year, trouble-laden post of price stabilizer. No businessman, Lawyer DiSalle had made a good record as chairman of Toledo's Labor-Management-Citizens Committee (The Toledo Plan) that has minimized the city's labor trouble for five years; he had the endorsement of Toledo's industrialists and the good will of labor leaders for the price-stabilizing job.
¶ Millard F. Caldwell Jr., 53, prosperous lawyer and a highly regarded former governor of Florida,...
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