Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Production Boss Donald Marr Nelson's "get tough" policy had landed him in a cyclone center. Good-natured Donald Nelson had brought some really tough men into the high councils of his War Production Board (TIME, Sept. 28). Now he found that they were much tougher than he-and hell was on the verge of popping...
...Donald Nelson did not show the decisiveness that might have stopped the trouble. Chief controversy raged over one of Eberstadt's appointments: Thomas R. Armstrong, a Standard Oil Co. of N.J. executive, to be chief of his foreign-requirements liaison branch. Because Armstrong was connected in Latin American minds with the fight against Mexico's oil expropriation a howl went up from the State Department, from the Board of Economic Warfare, from Nelson A. Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs...
Eberstadt stuck stubbornly to his ground. In untangling WPB organization and getting results, he had done a fine job. In appointing Armstrong, he had stood alone against Washington's best advice. But Donald Nelson had neither backed him to the hilt when he was right nor stopped him when he was wrong...
...posts, Nelson will have Captain Jack Farley and Dick Withington out trying to stop the wide sweeps and deep reverses of the Red and Gray. Mike Kahn is set at left tackle, while Ed Nabham will probably get the nod over Lyman Beeman as his running-mate...
...spent almost a whole day giving testimony on the bill to draft 18-and 19-year-olds; how Admiral Ernest J. King had cooled his heels for 40 minutes in an empty committee room while a Senate committee dawdled at lunch. A Washington gag had it that WPBoss Donald Nelson had already testified before every committee (there are 80) except those on Indian Affairs and the Disposition of Executive Papers...