Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome Ed Stettinius thus became the next-to-youngest Secretary of State in U.S. history.* A onetime big-business executive, specializing as a front man (General Motors, North American Aviation, U.S. Steel), he learned the basics of government protocol in NIRA, OPM, Lend-Lease. He has been learning diplomacy as Under Secretary of State since September 1943. Few doubted that under his regime the real Secretary of State would continue to be Franklin Roosevelt...
Dewey also took time to trace, in considerable detail, the long record of Administration bungling in setting up and tearing down defense agencies, from WRB through OEM and NDAC down to OPM and SPAB and finally WPB, which only a month ago "fell apart . . . and the head of the board was given a ticket to China...
...League, Republicans. As an all-out interventionist when World War II began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation of 0PM into WPB, he became its chief of Stockpiling and Transportation. So good was his stockpiling...
...make the tools with which to build the machines which would make the war material. This was the OPM phase. In the next stage (SPAB and WPB) the great new plants quickly ran the stockpiles down into shortages, and new plants and machinery had to be built to meet these shortages. This terrific expansion, in turn (in conjunction with the draft), used up all the U.S. manpower...
...plans laid last week will shove U.S. labor deeper into politics than ever before. Sidney Hillman, making a comeback after his unhappy experience as a Government official in OPM, won the consent of all 40 C.I.O. unions to draft all the men he wants. Henceforth he can reach into any union, pick out the best administrative, research, publicity or speechmaking talent...