Word: rosenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral effectiveness of this queer carnival was somewhat marred by the fact that the workers were not being thrown on the streets, without relief. Anna Rosenberg, the War Manpower Commission's slick, chic regional director, had 11,000 other jobs in the New York area awaiting the dismissed employes. But only about 725 workers signed up. Sometimes the new jobs offered less pay than Brewster's $1.14 an hour top for unskilled workers; sometimes the new jobs were inconvenient to get to. But mostly, workers hated to lose their seniority; some had worked for Brewster since...
...took Anna Marie Lederer Rosenberg, Manhattan's famed labor and public-relations expert and political insider, a week to make up her mind to accept her biggest job yet: chief assistant to Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, 64, the new director of Retraining and Reemployment. This week she stipulated that her acceptance was only for a very limited period-not more, she hopes, than two months. Even so short a Washington assignment she regards as "the longest sentence of my life...
...SmallTown Girl." Except when it is the most effective way to get things done, Anna Rosenberg is never coy. Dynamic small (5 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.), dark and 43, she has always stayed away from Washington jobs - except at the weekly visit-to-the-President level. She is reluctant to go to Washington because: 1) "I work best in the field. . . . I'm just a small-town girl"; 2) "I still think the war is nowhere near over"; 3) her husband Julius, a well-known rug dealer, and all her roots are firmly embedded in Manhattan concrete...
Political Sophisticate. But intense, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg is on her way as a master politician. She began politicking at 17 at Wadleigh High, a girls' school where she managed to head up-and off-a strictly masculine rebellion against compulsory military training for high-school students. But she later learned the trade all the way from Tammany ward heeling to the Governor's mansion. Years ago she learned that high-sounding central Government jobs may involve more politics than production-or praise...
...that finally sucked Mrs. Rosenberg into Washington is highly charged politically. She will have umpteen Washington agencies plus 20,000,000 servicemen and warworkers to cope with. Her boss, Brigadier General Hines, will retain his 21-year-old job as Veterans Administrator. The General is not quite what Bernard Baruch prescribed in his Reconversion Report, "of such outstanding caliber as to command the immediate confidence of the country," but he is an iron-willed, Army-trained administrator of the Old School. The gap between their social philosophies is at least as wide as the difference between their ages (21 years...