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...there was just as big a change as in any of those elaborate overturns. Donald Nelson got himself a whole cabinet of new executives. And this time the new bosses are not merely men who had fancy titles in their companies. They are men out of the real top drawer of private industry...
...same week that Donald Nelson helped President Roosevelt pick a real No. 1 man of U.S. industry-Union Pacific's able president, William Martin Jeffers-for rubber tsar (see p. 77), he went on to pick three other men out of the top drawer...
...Solomons made these moves effective. That attack was directed by Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, Commander in the South Pacific with headquarters in New Zealand. Fresh from a two-year tour as naval observer in London, Admiral Ghormley is vaguely known by the public as a figure in top-drawer naval diplomacy, but the Navy regards him as one of the best sea planners who ever came out of Annapolis...
...daughter and two sons, the youngest now prepping for Annapolis). When his time came for flag rank he was made skipper of the old Nevada. From then on he wore the broad stripe of Admiral's rank as he settled down in the Navy's top drawer-Naval War College, operations officer to the CINCUS (Admiral A. J. Hepburn), Director of War Plans, observer in London (with the temporary rank of vice admiral...
...another of its interests. Part of that $680-million bill is a request for $222.8 million for Farm Security Administration, the farsighted, big-hearted New Deal agency that keeps small farmers and marginal farmers on their feet-the farmers who by comparison get the skim milk after the top-drawer farmers have taken the cream. FSA can help 500,000-odd small-time farmers produce much-needed foodstuffs. But the Farm Bureau and their Congressmen hate FSA with a real and poisonous hatred; FSA helps impoverished Negroes and whites to own their own 40 acres and a mule, to gain...