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...also been-on his own hook and at risk of his job-the No. 1 drumbeater for the all-out war expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes. In the days when OPM's Bill Knudsen assured President Roosevelt that production was 100% good, and Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd shouted that it was 100% bad, Coy knew that Byrd was closer to the truth-and said so all the way to the top. For this he went deep into the doghouse for a while, but he finally won. OPM gave way to WPB; the expansionists...
...bright new faces which the President had brought to Washington in 1940 were deep in the shadows. Big Bill Knudsen was trouble-shooting for the Army, in his new uniform, looking a little like a Salvation Army General. Sidney Hillman was practically on the same shelf with Frances Perkins...
...Administration sent Mr. Nelson, Mr. Bard, Lieut. General William Knudsen, War Department's Robert Patterson, the Maritime Commission's leathery Admiral Land into the breach. To a man they deplored stoppages, no matter how small. But their main point: the Smith Bill would cause an uprising in labor, provoke disunity, wreck the war effort...
...hours a week, and if there weren't so many hours lost on strikes, then Nelson would get all the production he wanted, they said. And they got politicians to go to work for them in Congress. Then the lines began to form, the sparks to fly. Roosevelt, Nelson, Knudsen, Patterson, Biddle, Perkins all came out strongly for labor and against any legislation. The lie, which had been created to cloud the Murray plan now turned into an attack against the New Deal in general, reminiscent of the last days of the 1940 presidential campaign...
Admittedly, the OCD--like other defense agencies--contains defects which it is the duty of the press to expose. But this expose should be engineered with a constructive purpose in view--the ultimate strengthening of America's war effort. Propagating rumors about what Eleanor privately thinks of William Knudsen not only loses sight of this objective, but actively weakens defense and upsets morale. The shortcomings of OCD and the defense program in general are only intensified by scandal-mongering, where they could be alleviated by specific editorial suggestion. Apparently, the press need be reminded that there are more important ends...