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...Does this mean that Mr. Knudsen is the head of OPM-or Mr. Hillman...
...announced a month ago, the order set up a four-man board-the Office of Production Management-to direct the defense program. The board would consist of a Director General (Knudsen), Associate Director General (Hillman), the Secretaries of Navy and War. The board would have all the power the President could give to survey, formulate and execute for national-defense production. "The Director General in association with the Associate Director General" would do the administrative job, subject to the "yes" or "no" of the President...
...Industries Board of 1918. Franklin Roosevelt's answer was a super-defense board, on which he had hung a cumbersome jawbreaker-Office for Production Management for Defense. (Later he referred to it as the "Big Four.") Its director: Big Bill Knudsen. Other members: Laborman Sidney Hillman (with the title of associate director), Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Secretary of War Henry Stimson...
Only amateurs in Government, said he, grinning, talk of putting a pooh-bah, a Tsar or an Akhund of Swat in charge of national defense. No one man knows enough for the job. Better, said he, to have on the board management (Knudsen), labor (Hillman) and the user-buyers of national defense products (Navy's Knox, Army's Stimson). Under their four-man chairmanship (if it works that way) will be planned the three big Ps of industrial defense: 1) Production, 2) Purchasing, 3) Priorities. The National Defense Advisory Commission will go on planning, advising...
...idea originally was his own. Several weeks ago he lugged the bare bones of it to Washington. He so impressed C. I. O.'s Murray, Labor's Defense Commissioner Hillman, and Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson that they asked for specific documentation, a complete report. Last week after this potent trio had reviewed Walter Reuther's report, Phil Murray passed it on to President Roosevelt...