Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these circumstances it is not surprising that McNutt made less noise than any other high Washington official. He spent the last two weeks of August on vacation, returned to his office for one day, promptly took off on a four-day junket for a Labor Day speech in Omaha. He returned to Washington for nine more days, then was off to make a speech at the American Legion convention in Kansas City...
Between a speech at Omaha and a speech to the American Legion convention at Kansas City, Paul Vories McNutt returned to Washington to keep another speaking engagement with the House Committee on Defense Migration. Said Man-powerman McNutt to the committee: "It is my considered judgment, based on the best available knowledge of the manpower situation, that some type of national-service legislation is inevitable...
Jeffers lives in a comfortable brick Omaha house. Aggressively democratic, he once wrote that "the backbone of this democracy still eats in the kitchen." But he likes testimonial dinners. Behind the scenes, he managed a mammoth (7,500 guests) dinner given him when he became U.P. president. It was run on railroad time. The grapefruit was served at 6:07, the steaks at 6:18, etc. In 1940 Jeffers, no socialite, was king of AK-SAR-BEN ("Nebraska" backwards), Omaha's big annual blowout, a sort of civic triumph which the city awards to its sons who are outstandingly...
...appointment to be rubber dictator was due to the fact that WPBoss Donald Nelson, a U.P. director and longtime friend, submitted Bill's name to the President. Jeffers was at his Omaha desk when the President telephoned, saying he had a job for Bill Jeffers; Bill accepted then & there, went to Washington next...
...courses and tennis courts, scrap paid greens and court fees; there were scrap trap shoots and scrap horseshoe meets. Airplanes made surveys of scrap piles, dropped leaflets to farmers. Worshippers brought scrap to churches, children became "scrap commandos." For three weeks the World-Herald, which has a monopoly in Omaha and blankets the State (circulation 185,632), talked of almost nothing but scrap, had Nebraskans talking the same way. Result: 67,000 tons of scrap (103 lb. per capita), half the State's quota for six months...