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...council looked good. But the U. S. had listened to Herbert Hoover when he insisted that boards, councils, conferences would not do the job-one man had to have the power. From the White House came the answer. Big Bill Knudsen, bowing to the President with Old-World courtesy, straightened up to ask bluntly: "Who's boss?" "I am," said Franklin Roosevelt...
President William S. Knudsen of General Motors and Chairman Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., of the U. S. Steel Corp., were named to supervise industrial production and material...
...TIME, May 6, p. 76: General Motors President Bill Knudsen's defense of big salaries...
...sure Messrs. Sloan and Knudsen must be able to show General Motors more than they are paid...
Last week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...