Word: hillmanism
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...that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still ill. Fulltime U. S. officials who are to share his job (mobilizing trained man power where it is needed) buzzed ahead without him on plans to train 1,000.000 civilians, find immediately needed craftsmen, school 45,000 civilian pilots for a year (through CAA). Hulking Leon Henderson kept...
...William Green do and say has for long been of deep concern to a large segment of the U. S. public. Last week it became apparent that the public will probably be just as concerned in future with the doings and sayings of a couple of other fellows: Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky...
...Roosevelt. Quick as a counterpunch, his textile workers, clothing workers, hosiery workers, Sidney Hillman of his executive board, defied him, plumped for a Third Term. John Lewis settled his chin in his neck and glared...
Sick-abed, absent from the board meeting, was Mr. Hillman, recently lifted to prominence by his appointment to the Advisory Commission on National Defense...
...Stettinius is to find raw materials, Mr. Budd to deliver them, Mr. Knudsen to process them. To these three the President added Sidney Hillman, pink-cheeked, blond, curly-haired, 53, chief of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, vice president of C. I.O., a "labor statesman," no bumbler, coldly intellectual. Mr. Hillman will coordinate employment, supervise apprentice training...