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Last week the New Dealer plan appeared to be well under way. Around OPM was fear and gloom; production was beginning; but politics was being produced faster than ordnance (see p. 14). OPMites could see a nightmare vision of a day when Knudsen would be merely a wandering figurehead of good will, visiting factories and making Rotary luncheon talks; when Sidney Hillman would be a memo-writing figurehead, representing labor conciliation...
...William Knudsen, half of OPM's two-headed boss, was nevertheless undisturbed. Appearing as a witness before the Judiciary Committee, he said: "We thought that we had that one settled . . . but they thought up another one on the way home. . . . If we could get across to labor and industry how vital this program is to our future . . . then I don't think petty disputes would stop this program." Day later his fellow director of OPM, Sidney Hillman, echoed him: "Cooperation is the answer to labor troubles...
...William S. Knudsen and Edward R. Stettinius...
...William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman...
...Jesse Jones and William S. Knudsen...