Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's colleges, whose pillared front porches are already groaning under the weight of students trying to get in, haven't seen anything yet. This week Reconversion Director John W. Snyder predicted that some 2,080,000 young men & women will want to get in next fall-and there will be room for only 1,600,000. Among the 480,000 turned away will be 270,000 veterans. The U.S. college population, which increased 600% from 1900 to Pearl Harbor, is now about to double-and will stay that...
What to do about it? In a 13,500-word report to President Truman, Snyder urged some quick action first, some long thinking later. Quick steps...
Bernard thrills to the popular events of his decade-the Tunney-Dempsey fight, the Snyder-Gray murder. He joins in the terrible moaning of the crowd in Union Square when Sacco and Vanzetti are electrocuted. When, to his own disgust, he becomes a crack advertising salesman, he moves to what he feels are Bohemian quarters in Greenwich Village. As his income rises, his output of fiction drops proportionately...
...took time off to go back to Washington for Chief Justice Stone's funeral, was soon back on the yacht, anchored off the Quantico Marine Base. Some visitors came aboard on official business: General Dwight Eisenhower (the draft); Reconversion Boss John Snyder (coal strike...
...Little Patience. The economic handymen had answers. Reconversion Director John W. Snyder had reported that production of civilian goods was the highest in history ($150 billion a year). Was there still a clothing shortage? Stabilization Director Chester Bowles asked only for a little patience and fortitude. The clothing shortage, said he, would be a "lot better" by mid-July...