Washington, Feb. 16.
The War Department yesterday endered Colonel McBride, Field Artillery, jet of the General Staff,' to the Philippines, as Chief Executive to replace Colonel Arthur W. Holderness, who leaves the Philippines on May. 27 to join the General Staff—United Press. ae Dies at 116 Berlin, Feb. 16.
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For all practical purposes responsibility for converting America's economy from a peace-time to a war-time emergency basis has been delegated to a single head, and the name of that single head, President Roosevelt told his press conference is "Knudsen Hillman." That was his answer to questions seeking to learn why he had not vested ultimate executive power in one person.
Thus two former immigrant boys become President Roosevelt's "single head" for the programme designed to speed this country's own defence and to supply Great Britain and other democracies resisting invasion with more planes, more ships, more tanks and more guns.
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