Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Roosevelt last week fired two barrels at unhappy Mr. Johnson, unhappily for the War Department did not fire either Mr. Johnson or Mr. Woodring. Somewhat musty ammunition for the first shot was supplied by Secretary Woodring himself. At a Cabinet meeting he brought to Mr. Roosevelt's attention a book which appeared last August with an approving foreword by Louis Johnson. Adjusting Your Business to War is a handbook for industrialists, based on a now outmoded plan for mobilizing their resources in wartime. Mr. Roosevelt publicly remarked that no book on Army, Naval or kindred subjects bears...
...second shot was fired over Louis Johnson at the War Resources Board which, with the approval of the President, Assistant Secretary Johnson had too hastily created last summer (TIME, August 21). Mr. Johnson had announced that this board after reviewing his 1939 plan for industrial mobilization would continue to serve, would become in wartime an all-powerful War Resources Administration. Last week the President announced that W. R. B. will make one report to him and then promptly disband. Chortled Harry...
Discredited Mr. Johnson canceled an engagement to address the American Legion in Chicago (see p. 17) and dashed to Washington, where his colleagues were waiting to see whether he would resign. When he showed himself at the War Department, he did not act or look like a whipped pup in the doghouse. He apparently had a chance to subside into the War Department's No. 2 position, no discernible chance to replace Harry Woodring when & if the President finds a satisfactory successor. Attorney General Frank Murphy was offered the War portfolio, turned it down. An oft-mentioned possibility...
...Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned elsewhere for counsel. When Louis Johnson announced that Mr. Stettinius as chairman of W. R. B. would wield vast administrative powers in wartime, the evidence seemed to be overwhelming: the New Deal would be shelved for the duration...
...would run the U. S. in time of war? was vital. But that question alone did not move him to act last week. The President was in a peculiar and exasperating position. For on him, to his pained surprise, was hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations...