Word: hillmanism
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...bright new faces which the President had brought to Washington in 1940 were deep in the shadows. Big Bill Knudsen was trouble-shooting for the Army, in his new uniform, looking a little like a Salvation Army General. Sidney Hillman was practically on the same shelf with Frances Perkins...
...Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Budget Director Harold Smith, and Brain-Trusters Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and Anna Rosenberg) met in secret sessions, emerged with a final plan. Last week the President moved, named as chairman the man who had always hankered after the job. WPB's Sidney Hillman, who had also wanted the job, was shunted into a corner as "special assistant to the President on labor matters...
That politics is everybody's business in war as well as peace is the basic assumption of the new Harvard Forum. With speakers of the Conant, Hershey, Ingersoll, Hillman calibre as the feature attraction, the Forum could do much to widen the horizon of student interest in public affairs...
...McNutt manpower-mobilization plan was dead, buried in the graveyard file on Mr. Roosevelt's desk. Both Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt and WPB's Sidney Hillman had wanted to be the head man. Logical person to mobilize the country's labor force was the Labor Secretary: Madam Perkins was obviously unsuited. President Roosevelt could have replaced her-but labor leaders, after hours of haggling over who should be her successor, failed to agree; neither A.F. of L. nor C.I.O. chiefs would take a man from the other side. Indications were that no agency would...
...dinner in Washington, sponsored by the New Republic to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the New Deal, a group of high-up New Dealers (including Mr. Justice Hugo Black, Senators Pepper of Florida, Mead of New York, Hill of Alabama, Murray of Montana, Sidney Hillman, et al.) heard Attorney General Francis Biddle. He declared that the New Deal had been successful "because it is a political party tied up with the labor movement under an able political leader...