Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WPBoss Donald Nelson finally announced the establishment of 24 industry committees, designed to make each industry's gears mesh with the war effort, picked 24 industry chiefs. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch and many other experts had urged this for nearly two years...
Julian Crocker '44 of Eliot House and Milton has won the Sophomore managerial competition, it was announced yesterday. Second place went to Nelson F. Hermance, Jr. '44 of Leverett House and Milton...
...trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported $3,000,000 alimony. Blonde Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, daughter of late famed Surgeon Harvey W. Gushing, also was married in 1930, also got her divorce from Captain Jimmy Roosevelt...
This week WPB's Donald Nelson gave the first of four 15-minute fight talks which he will give over each network on successive Mondays or Tuesdays. This week, too, (Sunday 10:15 p.m. E.W.T.) Mutual began a notable series of weekly broadcasts, The United Nations Speak. Lead-off man for the U.S. was Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. He will be followed by representatives of the other 25 nations, short-waved to their native lands, long-waved to the U.S. by Mutual when "applicable to English-speaking people...
...National Association of Manufacturers announced a 200-man War Committee to siphon more & faster production from its 8,000 members (who hold 80% of all war contracts) and to help Don Nelson find and use their best industrial talent.* To head its steering committee, N.A.M. selected Malcolm Muir, publisher of Newsweek...