Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the King and Queen she toured London's bomb-gutted East End. In lofty St. Paul's she bowed her head before the ornate sarcophogi of Nelson and Wellington; in a cavernous bomb shelter (8,000 capacity) she was particularly interested in the children's toothbrush rack. When she got to the Red Cross's Washington Club on Curzon Street, the American doughboys greeted her with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops...
...recommendations, which named no specific candidates, was made by War Production chief Donald M. Nelson with the approval of Secretary of Agriculture Clande R. Wickard, it was understood...
With pardonable pride, Donald M. Nelson's committee-to-cut-down-paperwork (TIME, July 13) this week reported on the biggest operation on red tape in history. Their before & after report on reports made phantasmagoric reading...
...paperwork that he had to shut down for three weeks to catch up. Some tell-us-everything forms "reached the dimensions of a small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves of "bootleg" forms, not to mention countless stop-the-press telegraphic requests for information and duplicating queries from decentralized regional offices...
Small wonder, as one proud committeeman bragged last week, that "we were the most unpopular committee in WPB but business just loved us." Don Nelson planted himself squarely on the side of business, extended his red-tape surgeons' practice...