Word: keymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 100 "economic defense führers" will be named to this staff by Blomberg, to work with Germany's military keymen, Colonel General Werner von Fritsch (chief of the Army general staff), Admiral General Erich Raeder (Navy Minister), stanch-bellied' Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring (Air Minister & economic dictator). They will blueprint Germany's economic, industrial life and plan for complete and immediate mobilization in the event of. war. The Nazi object: preparation for "total war"-i. e., a fight in which every business, factory, mine is part of the German military machine...
...originator and administrator of the War-time selective draft. Like Col. Sawyer. General Johnson, as Administrator for Industrial recovery, was given the counsel of the Secretaries of Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric President Gerard Swope; Chairman Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago...