Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start this week (TIME...
Bedaux Week. To most of the U. S., Efficiency Expert Bedaux has long been a mysterious figure known only as the proprietor of the Chateau de Cande where the Duke and Duchess were married last June and as the inventor of something called the "Bedaux hour."* To U. S. Labor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux is not mysterious at all. Labor regards the Bedaux hour as synonymous with the "stretch-out" and "speed-up," considers Efficiency Expert Bedaux, whose system is used in 1,000 plants throughout the world, one of its bitterest enemies. Arrival of Efficiency Expert Bedaux caused an immediate...
...Washington, where he arrived with a representative of the New York advertising firm of Arthur Kudner, Inc., thus giving the Windsor tour an unfortunate commercial air, Efficiency Expert Bedaux's reception at the State Department was cool. Even cooler was his reception by a group of reporters invited to cocktails at the Mayflower Hotel, which hoped to accommodate Mr. Bedaux's friends when they arrived. Efficiency Expert Bedaux failed to improve matters when, asked whether he was paying for the Windsor tour, he gave a noncommittal answer indicating that...
...prompt applause from both of U. S. Labor's bitterly warring factions. President William Green of A. F. of L. said it "fairly represented the attitude of American labor." President Francis J. Gorman of C. I. O.'s United Textile Workers "reminded" the Windsors that Efficiency Expert Bedaux "made his money from the sweat of the textile workers...
...Sire." By the time U. S. Labor had made plain its opinion of the Windsor tour, the Efficiency Expert began to feel that he was not the ideal person to insure the Duke of Windsor the kind of reception he got when he visited the U. S. as Prince of Wales in 1924. He announced that he had telephoned the Duke of Windsor to offer to resign in favor of a less unpopular guide. The Duke's reply was "Charles, pay no attention to these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles...