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Besides Chairman Wallace, the SPABoard consists of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson; Navy Secretary Frank Knox; William S. Knudsen, OPM's Director-General; Sidney Hillman, labor's man; Harry L. Hopkins, Lend-Lease Administrator, Defense-Aid director; and Leon Henderson in charge of Civilian Supply...
...make this setup a little blood had to be shed. Two weak spots in OPM were Production, headed by John David Biggers, and Priorities headed by Edward R. Stettinius. Both were given jobs in which they may have more success...
John Biggers, whose handling of political hedgehogs in OPM had caused enmities, became Mr. Stettinius' opposite on the London end of the telephone: Lend-Lease Administrator in England-although W. Averell Harriman and Mr. Hopkins will continue to have the basic responsibility for that...
...replace Nelson as OPM Purchasing Director the President and Sam Rosenman chose Douglas C. MacKeachie, 41, formerly New England manager for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., a scraggly-looking genial man who has already saved the Army millions of dollars while giving the soldiers better food...
Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...