Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, Parliament and the nation were disappointed with the powers given to Lord Beaverbrook as Minister of War Production (TIME, Feb. 16). Although Beaverbrook's job was compared to Donald Nelson's in the U.S., it was clear that, at best, the Beaver will have only a half-Nelson on war production. Power over labor remains the primary concern of his rival, Ernest Bevin. The Supply Ministers will still answer to Parliament and may appeal over Lord Beaverbrook's head to the War Cabinet. About the only person who seemed satisfied with the appointment was Lord Beaverbrook...
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...
...Herbert Ames, K.T., will speak at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Upper Common Room of the Union on the training of Canadian pilots. The talk is entitled "The Beaver Has Wings...
Only other candidate often mentioned is plump Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, who has got himself in Dutch with Labor by supporting the Army and Navy policy of taking skilled industrial workers for military service. Last week the Beaver, who wants more & more skilled women for a huge production program in the Midlands, approached open battle with Minister Bevin on the question of woman-power...
...Production, about Munich, or about anything else. But the plainest words spoken to Winston Churchill last week came from one of his and one of Lord Beaverbrook's good friends. Said the scholarly London Economist, partly owned by the Prime Minister's friend Brendan Bracken and the Beaver's first lieutenant Sir Walter Layton...