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Five years ago labor leaders were doing their best to stir up discontent. Today that condition is reversed and almost every responsible labor leader knows he sits on a lid. The situation is so serious that the President has asked his No. 1 trouble shooter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, to suggest a plan for restoring mutual confidence before the pressure for wage increases blows price control sky high...
...more than a month, at Nelson's invitation, trim, grey-headed Dr. Luther Gulick, Federal trouble shooter, had been peering into WPB's innards. Dr. Gulick has already made recommendations: 1) to clarify authorities, sometimes so fuzzy now that industry branch chiefs are not sure whom they can fire; 2) reorganize the Production Requirements Plan ("Purp"), which after July 1 will finally be charged with the monstrous job of controlling all critical materials, from primary producer to factory...
...days before he left for San Juan, Tom Hennings married Mrs. Josephine Halpin, a St. Louis radio announcer who specialized in "the woman's angle." Tom and Josephine Hennings were more than merely decorative. For dreamy, reform-minded Rex Tugwell, extrovert Tom Hennings made an ideal trouble shooter. Sleek Mrs. Hennings, used to a busy life, poured her bubbling energy into civilian defense, which was headed by determined, energetic Mrs. Tugwell. The two ladies did not get along well...
President Roosevelt appointed an ace trouble shooter as Ambassador to Turkey: Laurence A. Steinhardt, now resting in the U.S. from his two-year labor as Ambassador to Russia...
...dizzy weeks of needling, wheedling, probing, recommending and arguing, the 50-year-old trouble shooter had succeeded handsomely in administering to Free China's sole remaining commercial traffic vein a much-needed shot of adrenalin. Tonnage of U.S. and British war materials hauled through Burma to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anxious people had more than doubled, promised to reach, then exceed the Road's original estimated capacity of 30,000 tons a month...