Word: rosenman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington insiders were aware of another figure: bald, bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London and Palestine, noted chemist, noted Zionist. Dr. Weizmann had a date in Washington to confer with Presidential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Rosenman. Reports were that Dr. Weizmann, who did not claim to know all the facts about synthetic rubber, nevertheless knew more of them than any other one man, perhaps could set the record straight...
...Army shake-ups in March, Smith's able, quiet staff workers had run fish-cold eyes over the War Department, seeking out weak spots. When the State Department and Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Committee feuded, Harold Smith wooed them back to harmony. Before Presidential Adviser Samuel Rosenman reorganized war production, and cleaned up the defense-housing mess, he conferred chiefly with Smith. The executive orders with which President Roosevelt made and unmade war agencies, delegated power and took it away, were drawn up in Smith's office. And Harold Smith has the final say on Government...
...mobilization had been sidetracked by the usual scramble of power politics-and by the President's reluctance to set in motion such an upheaval. Then a fortnight ago four White House advisers (Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Budget Director Harold Smith, and Brain-Trusters Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and Anna Rosenberg) met in secret sessions, emerged with a final plan. Last week the President moved, named as chairman the man who had always hankered after the job. WPB's Sidney Hillman, who had also wanted the job, was shunted into a corner as "special assistant...
...biggest New Deal messes has been the housing program. The mess finally got so frightful that even Franklin Roosevelt, who can stand more clutter around him than most men, waved his arms and shouted for his chief housekeeper. Rotund little Judge Samuel Rosenman grabbed dustpan and broom and waded...
...Amazing Executive." With OEM's Wayne Coy holding the dustpan, Judge Rosenman went to work with his broom. In spite of the gestures of hydra-handed Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones (among many other things, administrator of housing loans), the Judge swept up the 16 Federal agencies. Mr. Roosevelt announced last week that the mess was cleaned...