Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession, Banghart is smart, energetic, fast-talking. The other escapers were no cookie pushers: James O'Connor, 36, serving one year to life for robbery, who escaped twice before; William Stewart, 43, Matthew Nelson, 40, and St. Clair Mclnerney, 30, serving life terms as habitual criminals; Edward Darlak, 33, serving 199 years for murder...
...Chairman Donald Nelson declared that the problem had to be faced, the decision had to be made?and soon. He and the Manpower Commission's chairman, Paul Vories McNutt, had told a House Committee that the U.S. must screw itself up to the mandatory control of all civilian manpower. But they knew that legislation alone would not solve the problem. The first, the basic decision was on the size of the U.S. Army...
...seemed to have been made just last week?exactly ten months after Pearl Harbor. At least in its essentials, the decision even appeared to have been made?wrapped up and delivered in its minimum detail (so many weapons for so many men in such & such a time) to Donald Nelson, Paul McNutt and other key civilians who had to have the information before they could effectively get on with their jobs...
...Army had an answer. According to military men who should know best, the basic decisions were not so belated; the Army has long had a plan for global war. All that happened last week, according to these sources, was that General Marshall & staff at last let Don Nelson and a few other key civilians in on some of the end facts stemming from the Army's Master Plan. The Army's extreme reticence, up to last week, had simply been in the interests of necessary secrecy (the Army does not have a high regard for the discretion of civilian Washington...
Bolstered by the fact that the armed services for whom he is struggling to produce war goods finally gave him a realistic strategy of war production, Donald Nelson last week began to make noises about a "strategy of civilian production...