Word: landgraf
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Lend-Lease Act, will manage the enormous legal burden involved in British orders. Philip Young, son of General Electric's retired Owen D. (for nothing) Young, suave, polite, tweedy, pipe-puffing, also an ex-Treasury lawyer, will work with Cox, chubby J. C. Buckley, and blond, balding Alex Landgraf in planning, procuring, supervising production, shipment, whatever. These four, all 100% New Dealers, all young, tough-minded, aggressive, will be the Hopkins crew of odd-job men, sword-bearers, idea-factories, and intellectual bravos. They will work directly with the Navy's Paymaster, Rear Admiral Ray Spear, a grizzled...