Word: marr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the Army & Navy, the War Cabinet had three men and a team: >Tall, portly Donald Marr Nelson, the onetime Sears, Roebuck executive who plugged along quietly within the old National Defense Advisory Commission, grew in stature with every reorganization, finally emerged as the nation's Chief of the War Production Board. > Silver-haired, tall, tan and handsome Paul Varies McNutt, a joiner and doer who once looked like a merely ambitious politician, wound up last week as chief of all the nation's manpower in the new War Manpower Commission (see col. 2). > Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon...
...boss of history's biggest production line finished his first 60 days on the job this week. In his office in the Social Security Building, Donald Marr Nelson, Boss of the War Production Board, lifted his bland face from his desk, glanced at the hordes of advisers, callers, clerks streaming in & out, remarked: "This is a hell of a congregation I'm pastor...
...door opened and a girl edged through. She handed a message to Donald Marr Nelson, SPAB's executive director. He read it, glanced at his watch, whispered to Vice President Henry Wallace. The two left hurriedly for the White House. There they stayed with the President 50 minutes. When Donald Nelson came out, he had 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...
...girl was North Dakota-born Lucille Henricks, 23, secretary to Donald Marr Nelson...
...working Baruch for the duration was the man chosen to be SPAB's executive director: Donald Marr Nelson, ex-vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and until last week OPM's Purchasing Director...