Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After all of TIME'S and the U.S. public's pleas for centralization of defense management, isn't establishment of Supply Priorities & Allocations Board big enough news without splashing the photographs of the blonde secretaries of Mr. Nelson and Mr. Henderson over p. 11 of TIME, Sept...
Bouncing among his guests, helping them to tea, conferring honorary degrees (in Latin) on Catholic Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, Baptist Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jewish Governor Lehman and twelve other bigwigs, small, genial President Gannon had a wonderful time. He showed his guests an up-to-date university: Fordham has a big-time football team, a world-famed seismograph (earthquake-recording) station, a Nobel Prize winner (Physicist Victor F. Hess), a downtown branch in the Woolworth Building, schools of law, business, social service, pharmacy. Of Fordham's 8,200 students, only 1,400 are in its liberal arts college...
Chosen as head of the bureau-on rec ommendation of Donald Nelson,* head of the Supply Priorities & Allocations Board -was Nelson's old private-industry boss: ex-Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shy, esthetic Lessing Rosenwald retired in 1939, since has administered his philanthropies (including the noted Rosenwald Fund started by his father) and pursued his hobby of collecting etchings. Last summer he went to Washington as head of OPM's commodity section on silk. He was once a member of the America First Committee and an outspoken Willkie supporter in the last campaign...
...page monthly picture magazine, En Guardia ("For the Defense of the Americas"), was sent to 80,000 leading citizens of Latin America (special leather-bound copies went to Latin America's 20 Presidents). Publisher: Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Lavish with color plates, fancy printing and paper, the first issue was devoted to picture propaganda for the U.S. Navy-almost as impressive as a visit from the fleet. Later issues will contain less color, more text, will cost U.S. taxpayers less money, but will have impressive picture spreads demonstrating U.S. potency. And 20,000 copies...
...Nelson's survey will be designed to answer two questions which-though elementary-have never been answered before: 1) What does the U.S. have to produce to defend itself, to aid Britain, China, Russia and Latin America, and to satisfy its own minimum civilian needs at the same time? 2) How much does this represent in terms of raw materials, machinery, man power...