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These were the sober words of a man who weighs his words, a man who sees the job of armament as clearly as any man and clearer than most: Donald Marr Nelson, Director of the Division of Purchases for the Office of Production Management...
...rose the Office of Production Management's Director of Purchasing, ex-Sears, Roebuck executive Donald Marr Nelson. Warned he: "When the Defense Program was first undertaken the general policy was to superimpose [it] on the normal requirements for the civilian population. . . . The Defense Program has now, however, passed into the second stage. . . . [It] can no longer be superimposed. . . . If it is possible to produce what we need and still take care of our business as usual, that, of course, is what I want to do, but we must have the defense material regardless...
Within the office of OPM would be at least three divisions-Production, headed by Glassman John David Biggers; Purchases, bossed by Sears, Roebuck's Donald Marr Nelson; Priorities, bossed by Steelman Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. The President paused, blew out a cloud of cigaret smoke. The questions popped...
Mexicans like their movies, but not until the last three years have they been able to make what they like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz...
...still as naked as the day it was born (May 28, 1940) of all but "advisory"' power. But last week it watched another feather sewn to the full war regalia it may some day don. Franklin Roosevelt appointed a new four-man priorities board. Administrator was Donald Marr Nelson, the Defense Commission's (formerly Sears, Roebuck's) purchasing agent. Chairman was Commissioner Knudsen, its member commissioners Stettinius, Henderson. Purpose of the board was to work out a priorities system. In some industries-notably among the more defenseless customers of copper- priorities were already needed to determine...