Word: rosenman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting up a new Conservation Bureau, Judge Samuel Rosenman last week virtually completed his reorganization of U.S. defense (TIME, Sept. 8). The new unit, part of the Office of Production Management, will replace numerous conservation agencies now scattered through Washington, will have full charge of eliminating frills on civilian goods and stopping waste of scarce materials...
Headaches. Fortnight ago Harold Ickes received his reward for having so long foreseen and so valiantly proclaimed the critical deficiencies in the U.S. defense program. He was left out of it. When Judge Samuel I. Rosenman waddled around getting advice on defense reorganization he found unanimity on only one recommendation : keep Harold Ickes out of this. With the President's full approval, the Gadfly was then completely boxed off and shut out of the program...
Nevertheless the Rosenman-Roosevelt reorganization began by making Henry Wallace chairman of SPAB. This was done for lots of little reasons and one big one: it made Henry a real No. 2 President, sitting at the head of the group which will run the U.S. war effort. He had the title and the responsibility: he was the political Bernard M. Baruch of World...
Most important and immediate was Priorities, where nearly every crime against common sense had been committed. The long months of priority mismanagement had resulted in the U.S. turning up a magnificent pile of shortages. Here the Rosenman-Roosevelt plan displayed great cunning and foresight. Donald Nelson was also given the Priorities job, which is central to everything in defense...
...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...