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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...
...Appointed urbane, forthright Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 59, now chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, as director of a new war agency: The Office of Defense Transportation (see p. 60). ODT supplanted the last vestige of the now-extinct NDAC, the first defense organization set up by the President in May 1940. Out of a job (unless he accepts a post under Eastman) was Rail Coordinator Ralph Budd, exponent for 19 months of the theory that the railroads are ready. ODT's Eastman will boss rail, motor, inland waterway, coastal & intercoastal transport, and pipelines...
...forthright paintings, which had begun to appear in the annual Paris Salons, attracted the attention of Impressionist Edgar Degas, whose delicate, flaky pictures of puff-skirted ballerinas she had always idolized. "I would not have admitted," exclaimed Painter Degas, "that a woman could draw as well as that." Inviting her to join the ranks of the Impressionists who were just then making history by dragging art from its musty museums and studios into the sunlight, Painter Degas gave her some pointers on drawing. The platonic friendship between dapper, ironic Boulevardier Degas and his prim Pennsylvania ward ripened and endured until...
...have been instructed, by several Negro alumni of the University who are resident in the Greater Boston area, to express our great satisfaction with your editorial entitled "The Dark Side of Defense," which appeared in your issue of 27 November. It was a sterling example of forthright courageous journalism...
...always been forthright in his tactics. In Shanghai in 1940, when British and Italian Marines began to brawl, Tommy Hart didn't wait to consult the Japanese Admiral, who regarded the settlement as his preserve. He went to work on the British and Italian commanders, within a few hours had a twelve-man inter-allied patrol keeping peace throughout Shanghai. The patrol was made up of four Seaforth Highlanders, four Italian Marines, four U.S. Navy men, who were tactfully planted in the middle of the group...