Word: lunde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Washington last week strode a big, pink, chub-cheeked Michigan Swede -Wendell Lund, of Escanaba -6 ft. 1 in., 200 lb., 36, and unknown. His new boss, WPB Chief Donald Nelson, had to be introduced to him. Washington turned a blank face. But none of this fazed Mr. Lund. He had arrived to take over the Labor Production Division of the War Production Board, to become one of the nine people who will mobilize U.S. manpower for total...
...Lund was a compromise. C.I.O. leaders had hoped the President would appoint their little redheaded big shot, Walter Reuther. A.F. of L. bosses wanted almost anyone else. When Lund was suggested, they settled in jigtime...
...first in Washington. With degrees from Augustana College, Princeton, Columbia, Georgetown (law), he had once toiled in the Interior Department; later in the Farm Security Administration, where he did resettlement work. With his wife, a onetime physical-education instructor, he entertained carefully and well. In 1940 Lund went back to Michigan, ran for Congress, lost a close race. He remained to serve Governor Van Wagoner, kept one eye peeled on Washington...
...learned yesterday that Vic's unexpected death was the second tragedy in the Ehler family since the entrance of America into the war, Vic's son-in-law, Charles Lund, the husband of the Ehler's eldest daughter, Rita, had gone with a merchant ship, just 19 days after his marriage...
...candidates who are listed are: William J. Bingham, Director of Physical Education at Harvard; Laurence Curtis, lawyer and state senator; Henry L. F. Kreger, Lawyer; Charles C. Lund, surgeon; David P. Morgan, Chemical executive; Ernest W. Soucy, banker; James Talcott, executive; and Donald C. Watson, banker...