Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tory Oliver Lyttelton, onetime metals magnate and now Minister of Production, told the Aldershot Conservative Assn.: "The great periods of our history were nearly always associated with an outstanding individual and not with a political system. We think of Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake, or Marlborough, Pitt and Nelson and of the Duke of Wellington; and it is on the ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox ideas that the vigor of national life depends. Nothing could be more ghastly than a uniform cowlike public opinion which...
Alone of all major Washington problems, civilian supply has had no czar. Since March 1942 the agency charged with civilian supply has been a division in WPB that did not even report to Donald Nelson, but to his vice chairman Charles Edward Wilson (whose job is production of war goods...
Donald Marr Nelson chose a new vice chairman for WPB last week and thereby underlined one of the biggest unsolved war problems now facing the nation. The new WPBureaucrat: short, sharp-eyed Arthur Dare Whiteside, president of credit-raters Dun & Bradstreet. His backbreaking job: to see that U.S. civilians are supplied with enough really essential goods and services so that war production does not suffer...
...bill would also reduce Donald Nelson to a figurehead, since he has delegated war production to Charles Wilson. Result: last fortnight Don Nelson passionately opposed the Maloney bill before the Senate Committee; last week he appointed his new vice chairman in charge of the home front...
...press Nelson indicated that Arthur Whiteside's job would not be concerned with food, rubber, oil or transportation, which already have their own czars. Yet all these vital areas of the economy are intimately connected with civilian supply. Newsmen also remembered that, only a short time ago, Nelson had written to Jimmy Byrnes to suggest that Byrnes take the civilian-supply job off WPB's hands...