Word: nelsoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outspoken Browning quit SPAB because he could not stand the red tape. He helped Donald Nelson set up WPB, moved over to the Army in 1942. Commissioned a colonel, he joyfully went to hacking red tape in Army procurement. His first job: boiling down procurement regulations from 1,500 pages to 100. He also set up a system of periodic pricing of war contracts to give industrialists an added incentive to cut costs and boost production (TIME, March...
...sensitive bit of casting finally lands Baritone Nelson Eddy in his first horror picture. Here Eddy is Anatole Carron of the Paris Opera, who loves operatic Understudy Christine Dubois (Susanna Foster). She seems fated to go on understudying indefinitely until befriended by Enrique Claudin (Claude Rains). For Christine, Claudin has a vast but secret passion. Fired from the orchestra, a pan of acid is thrown at him, starts him on his exhilarating career as Phantom...
...relations which Franklin Roosevelt reserves for himself, working through miscellaneous aides. This segment has expanded ever since the start of World War II, includes matters handled by Assis tant Secretaries Adolf Berle and Dean Acheson,and others handled by such quasi-foreign-relations agencies as OEW, OFRRO and the Nelson Rockefeller Committee...
Finally Admiral Vickery stormed to the White House, demanded that Willie Gibbs walk the plank. According to one report, the President agreed. But WPBoss Donald Nelson rallied to Gibbs' side, even threatened to resign, and this forced a compromise...
...English or American journalism. His column is written in what O'Nolan describes as "socalled English" three days of the week; in "the kingly and melodious Irish" on the other three. It is as atmospheric of Dublin as the flower-&-vegetable women of Moore Street, or the giant Nelson's pillar which keeps a bleak eye socket on the drizzled city. Because he works as Assistant Principal, Local Government and Public Health officer all week, O'Nolan writes all six columns on Sunday...