Word: hillmanism
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...civil war has raged with indescribable bitterness, but always under cover. None could afford to break through the patriotic unity that William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman maintained in all sincerity. But in the strata below Knudsen and Hillman, the subterranean fires raged...
...yelled bloody murder when Ford got a $122,000,000 order for making Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, gave a Bronx cheer to unofficial Army explanations that Ford was best qualified to make the engines and that the engines were needed. The Defense Commission's ClOman Sidney Hillman put in his protest when Ford got another order: $2,000,000 worth of midget combat trucks to replace the Army's motorcycles...
...time the Army started shopping for more trucks, Sidney Hillman's voice had more carrying power, for he had be come the left side of Franklin Roosevelt's two-headed defense tsar, Knudsenhillman, head of the powerful Office of Production Management. One of the first things Sidney Hillman said in his new, strong voice was that Army orders should go only to manufacturers who respect the Wagner Act and other New Deal labor legislation...
Franklin Roosevelt grinned. Both of them. Incredulous, someone asked the question again. The President tried for an analogy. Knudsen & Hillman should be considered like a firm-like that famous law firm of Roosevelt & O'Connor. You went to Roosevelt and O'Connor. And you'd go to Knudsen and Hillman. If a conflict over policy should arise, Knudsen & Hillman could always consult the President. But it was silly to worry about disputes between them. Even over a labor question-say, Ford Motor Co. contracts? Yes, silly. The head man of national defense...
Whether Knudsenhillman would get along with himself, no man knew. That Knudsen & Hillman should work well together was a vital national necessity. Whether they could was another matter. That it was the easy way to mollify both industry and labor was plain to see. The inference of the President's act was that, although the nation's defense cried out for a boss who would have the confidence of both capital and labor, there was not a single man who could fill the bill. Perhaps such a man would emerge later, forced up by the pressure of events...