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...President accepted the Rosenman plan for reorganization of the defense management, put it into effect. The plan was the greatest single step forward yet in the defense program, and honestly represented the most possible reorganization, short of an earthquake...
Judicious Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman (TIME, Sept. 1) had devised the scheme. His orders from the President were to survey the entire program, to suggest a reorganization which would settle the increasingly louder bickering. "Sammy the Rose," who believes in the efficiency of simpleness, began by calling on all defense chiefs. After a day of calls he would return to his quiet, comfortable White House room, knit his judicial brow, write down the problems to be solved...
...Judge Rosenman then took his plans back to the defense bosses. So thorough had been his thinking, so deeply prepared were his answers to any objections, there was not a single dissent...
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...