Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Controls: Off & On. OWMR Boss John W. Snyder, still new in his job, got the task of drawing a master plan, of coordinating all the emergency plans...
...intents & purposes, reconversion was stalled. In a sizzling report, the Senate Investigating Committee had called on the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion to stop umpiring disputes at the policy level, take a strong and active hand in reconversion. OWMR's new boss, Banker John W. Snyder, still unsure and unfamiliar in his job, wanted WPB's operations extended to take in the transition problem...
...industry members felt the recommendations went too far; labor members felt they did not go far enough. They might still force some modification. But the new policy had been cleared with OWMR Boss John W. Snyder and with Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis...
Moreover, as Snyder moved in, some of OWMR's ablest operators moved out. Vinson's fat, fast-thinking general counsel, Ed Prichard, would follow his boss to the Treasury; Don Russell, a Jimmy Byrnes protege who had handled much of the war production side, had gone with Byrnes to the State Department. Others were gone or going. Grey, bespectacled Boss Snyder would have to find a new staff...
...Banker Snyder set out to build his own pipelines to other Government departments. He had one consolation: Fred Vinson would carry much of his economic policy-making with him to the Treasury Department. No one pretended that John Snyder would ever be called the Assistant President, as Jimmy Byrnes and Fred Vinson had been...