Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they entered, both men were met by a uniformed doorman who took their coats and ushered them straight into the green-walled office of John Wesley Snyder, the ex-St. Louis banker who is President Truman's Director of Reconversion. The basic labor problem of reconversion had come to a head...
...neutral White House ground, the two combatants were met by Snyder, Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach and Presidential Adviser John Steelman. The five men stayed in the long, narrow office but 20 minutes. Then they moved over to the more commodious Cabinet Room, which has a connecting door to Harry Truman's office. That door stayed closed...
...conference assumed the air of a third degree. For 15 minutes the three Government men left Murray and Fairless alone, to talk things over by themselves. Then Schwellenbach took Murray aside, while Snyder talked to Fairless in the Cabinet Room. John Steelman flitted between the groups, a combined kibitzer and interlocutor. Then, as in a game of musical chairs, Snyder and Schwellenbach switched partners. Finally all five men got into a huddle again...
...Skipper's three mates meant little. (Sam Rosenman was well known as F.D.R.'s wordsmith.) But, in influence, they were among the most important people in the U.S. Along with grey, cautious Leslie L. Biffle, Secretary of the Senate, and tightlipped, banker-minded Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, they are the men closest to Harry Truman, those he considers to be his true-blue loyals...
Died. Thomas J. Martin, 64, New York City detective who liked chocolate ice cream, scorned the "looking-glass detective work" of fictional sleuths, solved or helped solve many a notable and grisly murder (James Masterson, Helen Clevenger, the Snyder-Gray case); after a heart attack; in Queens...