Word: opm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stubborn core. One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station. At 30, he was TVA's manager of power operations, went from there to OPM as chief power consultant. When OPM was absorbed by WPB, Krug went with it. In 1944, he was commissioned a Navy lieutenant commander, served in Normandy and Italy, was home on leave when chosen to replace Donald Nelson as WPB chief. At war's end, Krug left the Government...
...stranger to Washington. His engineering and machine-tools skill and his Yankee obstinacy have kept him in & out of the capital for 13 years. As part of a Commerce Department advisory committee in 1934 he calmly and candidly criticized the Roosevelt Administration. In 1941 he resigned his job as OPM boss of machine-tool priorities because his bluntness had him at odds with OPM bigwigs. When the OPM was reorganized, he was quickly recalled. He did advisory and expert jobs for the WPB and the Economic Stabilization Board. Lately he has been influential in the Committee for Economic Development...
...chairman of the War Resources Board (1939), priorities director of OPM (1941), Lend-Lease administrator (1941-43), and Under Secretary of State (1943-44), he added an impressive governmental finish to his civilian luster...
...When OPM was set up, William Knudsen grabbed Cap Krug. When OPM became WPB he went along. He received a Naval commission in 1944, was sent to Normandy, then Italy, but was hauled home to replace Donald Nelson as chief...
...five years in the Government. Donald Marr Nelson resigned this week. In 1940, fresh from the management of Sears, Roebuck & Co., he symbolized the nation's first groping efforts toward war production when he became purchasing agent for the old National Defense Council. He stayed on through SPAB, OPM and WPB, spent his last year of Government service on special presidential missions. Now he was off for a rest, with a pat on the back from President Truman...