Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boldness of Nelson, without that hero's flamboyancy. His voice is so loud that he has no need for bull horns in battle. His eyes have a mariner's sadness, but he has plenty of wit. His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century. His principal indulgence is the sending of very British dispatches, and in those dispatches lies the flavor of both A.B.C. and World War II in the Mediterranean...
...five cruisers and several destroyers, and swept right up until he almost tickled the instep of the Italian foot. He got no reaction. Such sweeps became the pattern for his fleet. Whenever his ships found Italians, they whipped them. On one occasion Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville on the Nelson knocked the Italians and escaped with nothing worse than a scare from an Italian torpedo, which missed. Flashed A.B.C.: "Flag to Nelson. Success of your operation should console you for nearly getting slap in belly with wet fish." When Admiral Somerville was given a second knighthood, A.B.C. signaled "Congratulations. Twice...
Said young Robert H. Keys, president of the new Foreman's Association of America: "The decision is bad public policy. . . . We will accomplish in the shop what the law intended we should be able to accomplish in the court." Added the union's lawyer, Walter Nelson: "If employers bolstered by the decision flout the union's demands, there will be trouble." This sounded like the threat of a strike: the first strike of organized foremen in U.S. history...
...Senate, unable (or as yet unwilling) to rise up and oust Donald Nelson as WPBoss, this week passed a bill which would rip away a substantial half of his domain, and hand it over to an entirely new kind of czar-one created by legislation, not by Presidential fiat...
...Senate passed the Maloney bill, 44-to-29, setting up an independent Civilian Supply Administration. Donald Nelson had already set up a brand-new civilian supply division, headed by pint-sized Arthur D. Whiteside. On Czar Whiteside in the last fortnight Nelson had lavished new powers and prerogatives, in a desperate attempt to stave off the Senate bill. Result: Czar Whiteside now has the world's most ambiguous job. If the House shares the Senate's conviction that the home front will never get an adequate hearing within WPB, Mr. Whiteside's goose is cooked...