Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bertram Stuart Hoffman, 27, is a tall, spindly, none-too-brilliant ex-earmuff salesman, ex-U.S. sailor. Last March he joined the U.S. Merchant Marine and re ported to his Detroit pals (in simple cable code) on Allied convoy movements...
C.E.D. will be a year old this week. Its chairman, Paul Gray Hoffman, 52, has been president of Studebaker Corp. for eight years, has led other mass movements in business. But none has approached the size of C.E.D.'s job. C.E.D. is working on the assumption that private industry can and must produce 40% more goods and services after the war than it did in 1940, and thereby employ at least 20% more workers than in that fat year...
...Plan. The Hoffman-C.E.D. idea is to start at the grass roots of private enterprise-with the nation's 2,000,000 employers (90% of whom employ less than, eight men)-and see what can be done about arranging for this production and this employment. If enough businessmen will do their smart part, the sum total may equal the beyond-the-horizon frontier toward which U.S. hopes are directed...
Conversely, probably the greatest danger facing C.E.D. is that, in evangelizing employers with the "business can do it'' point of view, it may mesmerize too many citizens into thinking that C.E.D.'s slogan is "business can do it alone." Paul Hoffman's job is to see to it that business does its utmost without appearing to assume responsibility for more than it can be expected to deliver...
...From Edward James Smythe, Klan and Bund go-between, he learned Smythe's candidates for the "nationalist cabinet" of tomorrow: Secretary of the Treasury, Father Coughlin; Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thorkelson; Secretary of State, Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Secretary of Public Health & Morals, Representative Clare Hoffman...