Word: knudsenhillman
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...Treasury assistant, was assigned to act as legal adviser to Hopkins. The move in effect put Hopkins in as the nearest Roosevelt approach to a Defense Tsar, such as Bernard Baruch was in World War I. But Mr. Roosevelt will continue to run things, with the team of Knudsenhillman assigned more & more to the physical workshop of defense...
Near midnight, Knudsenhillman called newsmen to Knudsen's office, in weary triumph announced the terms of a truce. The union's first two demands would be met. As for an election, OPM and NLRB would explore the possibilities. Heavy with fatigue, arm-in-arm, Knudsenhillman shuffled home...
...chief organizer of the strike: "This is . . . the first time on a large scale that our union has been able to get any sort of agreement from Bethlehem. . . .'' No one believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine hours after the strike began, steel was beginning to roll again in Lackawanna...
...Distressed." Knudsenhillman still had troubles to worry about. Scarcely had OPM mopped its brow when word came that a fourth International Harvester plant, the big Chicago McCormick Works, had shut down. And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest. Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder...
...Knudsenhillman hoped was that the U. S. would keep its shirt on. Breathed the doubleheaded boss of OPM: "We are not distressed by the situation. There is nothing serious. What we are doing is working out, and working out well...