Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis Talk. All three, WPBoss Donald Nelson, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson, averred that they were anxious about the war labor situation. Donald Nelson used such phrases as "desperately acute," "a great danger," "very grave," and "serious" to describe the manpower needs in the casting and foundry industries, lumber, pulpwood and textiles...
This Seven-Seas fleet of such vast size and power that it is almost a world police force in itself had been built, apparently, by men dissatisfied with their working conditions-practically by transient laborers, if the Navy Yards turnover was at 60%. And even as Donald Nelson worried over the manpower to make landing craft, production of landing craft shot up 35%, in figures reported this week...
...Senate Committee session where Messrs. Nelson, Forrestal and Patterson appeared to plead for a work-or-fight law only three Senators showed up out of 18 on the Committee. And all three announced themselves as against the bill. Even the bill's two Senate sponsors, North Carolina's Bailey and Maine's Brewster, confessed they were about ready to give...
...High score for one-punch knockouts: four, by Lightweight Tommy Nelson of Vernon, Calif., in the seasons...
...Broadway hit which delved deep into Manhattan's Dutch past in order to be thumpingly arch (in Gilbert & Sullivan style) about dictators, democracy, the masses, freedom of the press and young love. Cinemactor Charles Coburn plays Walter Huston's old part as a period dictator-Peter Stuyvesant. Nelson Eddy is the singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya, who has nothing to do with the plot, dances powerfully, continues...