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...Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, are Franklin Roosevelt's mainstays on all-important Foreign Policy. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, the splintered War Department's Henry Stimson (see p. 20), and their ranking officers (Stark, Marshall), along with Industrialists William Knudsen and Edward Stettinius, Labor's Sidney Hillman, are often at the White House to talk and administer Defense (see p. 77). A curious, fateful fact about Franklin Roosevelt is that none of these men-not even Cordell Hull-belongs to the President's innermost Inner Circle. They are professionals or emergency specialists with...
...result of common criminal greed or systematic sabotage. But newsmen learned of two in Chicago, one in Cleveland, six in New York City. The monetary loss in these thefts was about $75,000 but the loss of badly needed tools was more important. In Washington, Advisory Defense Commissioner William Knudsen refused to worry: "I don't imagine you could steal enough to get us in any trouble, and, anyhow, we could make some more." But the new form of crime was a sign of the times...
Defense Commissioner Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen held a press conference in Washington last week. He blushed. He dazed 30-odd reporters by calling them "Sir" and "Madam." At ease, his huge body hunched comfortably in his chair, he handled himself as adroitly as Franklin Roosevelt at his best. He also gave the best report to date on the state and prospects of production for U. S. Defense. Knudsen's prime points...
With Big Bill Knudsen of General Motors heading procurement for Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission, no one doubted that General Motors' Allison plant would get plenty of steam in its boiler. To see what could be done about speeding up the main Indianapolis plant, the Army Air Corps sent as its factory representative a famed flier-engineer who was once one of its brightest technical stars. Stubby, go-getting Reserve Major James Harold Doolittle, famed speed pilot and Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering (M. I. T.), was recalled to active duty from civilian life, was glad to answer...
...wishful optimist is Theodore Paul Wright. Mr. Wright, Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s vice president of engineering, last week was at work for Mr. Knudsen. In Aviation's July issue, Expert Wright appraised the aircraft industry, concluded that the U. S. may be able to better the Germans' rate of increase in their air force (from 4,300 planes in 1936 to a reported 31,000 last May). Wrote Mr. Wright (before he joined the Defense Commission): "It is estimated that an airplane production rate of approximately 2,000 a month, or 24,000 a year...