Word: steelman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Steelman got labor and management to agree on a compromise...
Roads Seized. At the urging of Dr. John Steelman, Harry Truman's labor adviser, management made another offer. To the fact-finders' offer, they added a 5?-an-hour boost for all hands and an escalator clause guaranteeing a 1? wage boost with every one-point rise in the cost of living. Still Kennedy and Hughes said no. To show they meant business, they ordered a token strike in three terminals and two feeder railroads. Last week, apparently in a more amenable mood, they promised Steelman that they would not extend the token strikes. But 45 minutes later...
David Stowe, 39, is a Steelman protégé, born in Connecticut, a former schoolteacher and the son of a schoolteacher. He does the President's homework on the specific problems of the National Security Resources Board, planning the economic moves to be made in event...
Scurrying between the White House and the old State Building, all of these advisers live carefully compartmented lives. They see little of each other socially. They are divided roughly in their thinking between the Clifford philosophy of frontal attack and the Steelman philosophy that the better and safer attack is an oblique one. But the difference is principally in method, not in ideology. It is not enough to interrupt the almost noiseless ticking of the Little Cabinet's well-oiled clockwork...
Charlie Murphy is only one of a score of men in the Little Cabinet, men the U.S. knows little about, who make it their business to know a lot about the U.S. The big wheels, like Assistant President John Steelman and Secretary Matt Connelly, have their offices in the White House. The little wheels around the Truman mainspring are located just across the street on the second floor of the old State Department Building...