Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real name: John Franklin Carter). Columnist Franklin then almost gluttonously ate the words of his column of a few days earlier. In it he had attacked "the machinations of certain 'dollar-a-year men' on the OPM," particularly * Here Am I (Random House; $3). John D. Diggers, Knudsen's head of Production, whom he accused of being the worst of "a certain element in the OPM to play corporation politics with the national defense and to use the boring-from-within technique of the Communists.: "Now," confessed Franklin, "after conferences with Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Biggers, with...
...undercover attack on Knudsen and other odorous schemings of Washington's white-haired boys described in "Whispers in the White House," sent me staggering to the rail...
...trip to China. He talked over the setup of a "home defense" for the U. S. in a conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments to the National Defense Mediation Board. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones rode on the Florida-bound special with him. At Jacksonville the President paused to inspect the new $40,000,000 naval air training station. And out on the fishing grounds a seaplane shuttled back & forth, bearing messages from Washington...
...Knudsen, who had expressed his opposition to anti-strike legislation, gave the House Judiciary Committee his plan for watering down heated disputes before they reached the strike stage. His plan: if efforts of the Conciliation Service failed, 60% of all employes at a defense plant must approve the strike at a secret ballot, and notice must then be given of intent to strike; Government officials would investigate and report within ten days; the strike must be deferred until 30 days after the report...
...minded citizen stands in the prop wash of many a muddled controversy. He realizes that the U. S. aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today holds Britain's life in the balance. But he is confused by fragments of ill-ordered, semi-secretive information and misinformation fired at him haphazardly by the press, labor, Government, business. Out of this confusion this week came an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize the whole problem: the all-aviation March issue...