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...hottest as the OPM was set up. The U. S. was getting into the second stage: tooling up. The OPM itself was a four-man board on which two were advisory dummies-War Secretary Henry Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox. Boss was a two-headed man named Knudsenhillman, whose like had never been seen on land or sea, but who looked exactly like a Roosevelt compromise. The struggle raged about a job that will one day perhaps be all-important: executive secretary of the OPM. The $1-a-yearlings wanted the job for Fredrick M. Eaton, Wall Street lawyer...
...time the Army started shopping for more trucks, Sidney Hillman's voice had more carrying power, for he had be come the left side of Franklin Roosevelt's two-headed defense tsar, Knudsenhillman, head of the powerful Office of Production Management. One of the first things Sidney Hillman said in his new, strong voice was that Army orders should go only to manufacturers who respect the Wagner Act and other New Deal labor legislation...
...policy should arise, Knudsen & Hillman could always consult the President. But it was silly to worry about disputes between them. Even over a labor question-say, Ford Motor Co. contracts? Yes, silly. The head man of national defense in the U. S., the President said, was a fellow named Knudsenhillman...
...Whether Knudsenhillman would get along with himself, no man knew. That Knudsen & Hillman should work well together was a vital national necessity. Whether they could was another matter. That it was the easy way to mollify both industry and labor was plain to see. The inference of the President's act was that, although the nation's defense cried out for a boss who would have the confidence of both capital and labor, there was not a single man who could fill the bill. Perhaps such a man would emerge later, forced up by the pressure of events...