Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...House watchdog, bellicose Representative Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga.; and bumbling Representative Carl Vinson of Milledgeville, Ga., self-appointed watchdog of the interests of the Navy's high command. Together they suddenly proposed an amendment which was designed to freeze the old and new priorities powers under OPM's Stettinius; give official status to committees of industry, and make all priority rulings finally subject to approval by the Army and Navy Munitions Board. Further: to warn against the probable coming ouster of Stettinius. appointment of anyone as Priorities Director would be subject to confirmation by the Senate...
Among the prominent alumni that will explain the business situation will be John Lord O'Brain '96, general counsel of the OPM, Frederick C. Crawford, '13 of Cleveland, President of Thompson Products, Inc., and Clarence B. Randall '12 of Chicago, vice-president of the Inland Steel Company...
...labor men on the Advisory Heard, Slichter pointed out "do not represent anyone, not even the 16 unions from which they come." To make the Committee's policy effective, the OPM must acquire the cooperation of all the labor unions...
...problem," the President told OPM's Knudsen-Hillman last week, "is to see to it that there is no idle critical machine in the United States. The goal should be to work these machines 24 hours a day and seven days a week...
Fischer did not speak much Russian when he went to Russia. But on the train he met Sidney Hillman. The future co-director of OPM (a native who speaks Russian) was in Russia reconditioning clothing factories, trying to teach the Bolsheviks how to run them...