Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knudsen Out, Nelson In. That afternoon, in the session of SPAB, top defense board, SPABsters leaned back in their chairs. Smoke curled overhead lazily. The day was tagging out; the indirect lights over the long walnut table had been clicked on. It was nearly 5 o'clock...
...been appointed boss of the world's greatest armament effort. Ten minutes later Press Secretary Stephen T. Early told reporters the big news. It was on the tickers within a minute or two. A bulletin was placed on the great glass-topped desk of William S. Knudsen...
...Knudsen's secretary announced Donald Nelson. A slow, friendly smile spread over Knudsen's face. The door opened; tall, portly, spectacled Nelson walked in. "Hello, Bill." he said. Said Knudsen: "Hello, Don. Congratulations." There was a moment's silence, then Knudsen said: "Don-I guess this defense program is a relay race. I've carried the flag as far as I can go. You've got to carry it the rest of the way. I hand...
...months ago, said Eleanor Roosevelt indignantly, she had seen that conversion of the automobile industry would throw thousands of people out of work in Detroit. She went to Messrs. Knudsen & Hillman and urged that OPM start training autoworkers as workers on airplane parts. Said she: "Mr. Knudsen looked at me like a great big benevolent bear as if to say, 'Now, Mrs. Roosevelt, don't let's get excited...
When she called on Mr. Knudsen a month later, said she, he brushed her off again with the answer that something was being worked out. "I wonder," wondered the President's wife, "if Mr. Knudsen knows what hunger is-if any member of his family has ever gone hungry? The slowness of our officials in seeing ahead, in seeing the very obvious things that are developing, is responsible for the whole mess...