Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amazing Executive." With OEM's Wayne Coy holding the dustpan, Judge Rosenman went to work with his broom. In spite of the gestures of hydra-handed Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones (among many other things, administrator of housing loans), the Judge swept up the 16 Federal agencies. Mr. Roosevelt announced last week that the mess was cleaned...
Supply. Most dramatic, most drastic change was the centralization, under one head, of the old, hydra-headed bureaus of Army supply. General Somervell, whose job has a lot in common with Admiral Robinson's (see p. 38), will see that the Army has what it needs when & where needed. Onetime New York City WPAd-ministrator, where he was a whopping success, Somervell is quietly hot-tempered, moves in on what he wants with a sophistication belying his contention that he is "just a country boy from Arkansas trying to get along in the big city...
This was the sad conclusion last week of many a defense expert. Intended as the brains of defense, SPAB has turned out to be just another feeble tentacle of the hydra-like monster. Donald Nelson, its executive director, has no vote in its councils. Moreover, Nelson has two conflicting jobs. As SPAB director he is boss of William Knudsen's Office of Pro duction Management. As OPM's priorities director, he is Knudsen's hired hand...
...Maynard knows how to give good advice if not to take it. His counsel to journalists: "Merely to expose Protestant bigotry is an endless process, the cutting off of the Hydra's heads, and accomplishes nothing. It is about time that we learned that the most effectual way of making other people Catholics is by ourselves becoming Christians...
...thinks of such a mass as Russia that one cannot attack either from the side or from the rear. . . . She overflows on you if you lose; she retires into the middle of the ice banks if you win, and suddenly comes out again like the head of the Hydra. ... It is not in our province to attempt such a Herculean task, and I tried it stupidly. That I must admit...