Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working on the Railroads. In Potsdam the President had kept a close eye on the Pacific war reports and a guiding finger on domestic matters. During the week he: ¶Appointed St. Louis Banker John W. Snyder to be War Mobilization and Reconversion Director (see below). ¶ Asked Congress to abolish the three-man Surplus Property Board, put the job under one man (presumably Businessman William Stuart Symington III of St. Louis, his appointed chairman). ¶ Ordered the Petroleum Administration to take over and operate the strike-threatened (C.I.O.) butadiene plant of Sinclair Rubber Inc. at Houston. ¶Asked...
...first major appointment, Harry Truman had called in an old friend and World War I buddy, St. Louis Banker John Wesley Snyder, to succeed Fred Vinson as Federal Loan Administrator. This week, as Vinson moved on to the Treasury Department, John Snyder moved into another Vinson seat: he became Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion...
Plump, amiable John Snyder, who had spent more than half his 49 years in the banking business, had seemed a natural for the Federal Loan job. Former RFC official, former executive vice president of the Defense Plant Corp., he had (in 1943) become first vice president of the First National Bank of St. Louis. As a banker he was sound; in the field of government credit he had been an able red-tape cutter. But OWMR was something else again...
Tough Job. Now Banker Snyder would find himself in a hurly-burly world of Washington compromise-of giving & taking and influencing people-at a time when the U.S. was moving into the delicate period of reconversion. Already the civilian side of OWMR was embroiled in a rough-&-tough battle with the military; OWMR felt that Army & Navy were holding too tightly to high production schedules, that the civilian economy should get a better break...
...drum Washington into agreement, Kaiser rounded up the California Senate and Assembly, got them to forward a joint resolution to President Truman, Federal Loan Administrator John Wesley Snyder and California's Senators and Congressmen-urging continued postwar operation of western war plants by "those who pioneered them...