Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...26th Congressional district of New York there were many crossed fingers this week. There was the dinkiest of dinky chances that Isolationist Congressman Hamilton Fish, Republican, might be defeated at the polls by Ferdinand A. Hoyt...
Backstopping their ethereal hopes were some concrete facts: Ferdinand Hoyt is the nominee of two parties (Democratic & American Labor); he has been endorsed by War Under Secretary Robert Patterson, Navy Under Secretary James Forrestal, both of whom vote in Fish's district; Fish won two years ago by only a 9,000-vote plurality (usually his plurality is 20 to 30 thousand); Fish has been publicly repudiated by his Party's gubernatorial candidate, Thomas E. Dewey...
...Government's new program of giving key war jobs to honest-to-goodness business big shots instead of their assistants, yes men and front men scored again last week: Ferdinand Eberstadt persuaded the No. 1 man of General Mills (world's biggest miller) to give up his job in Minneapolis to head WPB's new Program Coordination Division...
...magic of obtaining more materials than exist by the simple device of inventing higher priority ratings has about lost its effectiveness as a stage illusion, even in Washington. AA-2x, it appeared, was only a stopgap measure until WPBoss Donald Nelson's new plan-it man Ferdinand Eberstadt (TIME. Sept. 28) got the new, more realistic allocations system under...
...last week Ferdinand Eberstadt, Donald Nelson's new right-hand man, spent much of his first week in office trying to cope with the problem. The Army sent chunky, wisecracking Colonel Baxter over to WPB to take on the job. Colonel Baxter is no novice in war work or Government jobs: he had almost 20 years of active service after graduating from West Point in 1911, plus a stretch as one of Hugh Johnson's division heads in NRA days. This week Colonel Baxter is due to make his first move: a new Steel Recovery Corp., backed...