Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms production, WPB Chair-man Donald M. Nelson spoke: "[The U.S.] is actually doing things today which were truly unthinkable a year ago. It is executing programs which sounded utterly fantastic no more than six months ago " Out the window went WPB's long-term plans for factories that would not produce arms until later. The war effort had succeeded in establishing the full priority of things military over things civilian, but now priorities were being established among military items. For the first time U.S. priorities were apparently being dictated not by the general object of beating the enemy...
...Nelson decentralized his staff, turned production over mostly to the Army & Navy, set up a new all-important committee to feed the war machine with raw materials, keep the present lines moving at top speed. To move the produce and to get around the shipping bottleneck, WPB worked toward a huge new fleet of air transports. Now 1943 and 1944 were far away and 1945 was never...
...Hopkins, had turned into a kind of left-hand man to complement Hopkins on the right. Long before the Army shake-ups in March, Smith's able, quiet staff workers had run fish-cold eyes over the War Department, seeking out weak spots. When the State Department and Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Committee feuded, Harold Smith wooed them back to harmony. Before Presidential Adviser Samuel Rosenman reorganized war production, and cleaned up the defense-housing mess, he conferred chiefly with Smith. The executive orders with which President Roosevelt made and unmade war agencies, delegated power and took...
...Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia and many another bigwig, freely admitted that her outside salary came from R. H. Macy-Bamberger (department stores), who paid her $20,000, and I. Miller (shoes), who paid her $2,500, for giving them advice on labor relations. The other $6,000 came from Nelson Rockefeller, for the same kind of advice and help on "speeches for graduation and commencement exercises...
...doubles, Captain Orme Wilson, playing with Jim Jenkins, and Hugh Hyde, together with Wally MacDonald, took their matches handily, but M. I. T.'s Nelson and Greenman defeated Norm Neagle and Irv Fried...