Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Changes. The Prime Minister promised to appoint a Minister of Production, corresponding to Donald Nelson of the U.S., and to give the Dominions voices in the high war councils...
...Houses will cooperate in training upperclassmen. Each House Committee will appoint a defense committee to which all information about defense will...
...that point, President Roosevelt had to do something. Rather than fire Butch, he pulled his favorite trick: appoint another man to ambiguously equal authority, and leave the rest to nature. As "executive" director of OCD, he appointed Dean Landis. Washington predicted that Congress, mollified by this move, would now give OCD the funds it wanted. (The Army, too busy with other things, does not want the civilian-defense...
Next came a problem still unsolved: how to deal with the British Ministry of Supply's forthright fireball, beaver-like Lord Beaverbrook. Simplest procedure would be to appoint a single U.S. head of defense production, who would negotiate and decide directly with Beaverbrook. But thus far there was no single U.S. head. The President still preferred to delegate problems individually. Meanwhile Beaverbrook's effectiveness deeply impressed many White House advisers. (Particularly bowled over was OPM's William Knudsen, who had long agreed with U.S. automobile companies that they were unable to convert more than 15% of their...
...cable to placate already independent-minded Australians if anything goes wrong with the defense of Singapore and other approaches to Australia. Australia feels now, more than ever, that her own lack of defense is partly due to her all-out effort to help Britain. Last week she watched the appointment of Sir Archibald Percival Wavell as Allied Commander in Chief for the Pacific (see p. 17) with mixed thoughts. She may tolerate British command only if Britain and the U.S. spare her enough material fully to equip her home armies; or if Britain decides to appoint General Sir Thomas Albert...