Word: doerring
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...Marr Nelson, the onetime Sears, Roebuck executive who plugged along quietly within the old National Defense Advisory Commission, grew in stature with every reorganization, finally emerged as the nation's Chief of the War Production Board. > Silver-haired, tall, tan and handsome Paul Varies McNutt, a joiner and doer who once looked like a merely ambitious politician, wound up last week as chief of all the nation's manpower in the new War Manpower Commission (see col. 2). > Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against inflation and its rationing...
...warfare in the years of peace. Both saw that war would come again, both dared to shout warnings when such shouting was unpopular. Wells, the dreamer, seeing how bad the war would be, was for avoiding it by organizing a new and better world. Churchill, the doer, urged military action...
...whom he calls on when he has a problem they can deal with. Ben Cohen is the New Deal's legal draftsman, not so busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department to the control of Bob Jackson and Solicitor General Francis Biddle. Smart, loyal Mr. Biddle is a Jackson libertarian who seldom sees the President, but writes many a memo for him and his counselors...
Work was of the most informal variety, as members of the ski team came and went working a couple of doer of a time of a compile of weeks at a time. Beginning at the end of August, there was work being done continuously until last week when the finishing touches were...
...call "experience." You condone one type of action--"first-hand experience" without taking sides. But this is little more than observation, less valuable than what the educators call "learning through doing." Secondly, the Harvard Student Union hopes to give the student a place of some small importance as a doer, as well as an absorber; in doing this, it hopes to contribute to the practical advancement of the aims for which it stands, as well as to the development of the individual. This cannot be done without the "action" you deplore. Finally, what the Crimson itself speaks...