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...work on $45,000,000 worth of Army and Navy contracts for turbines, shafts, pumps, gun parts ceased. Patience exhausted, Knudsenhillman sent identical telegrams to Milwaukee, urgently "requesting" spokesmen for both sides to hurry to Washington. There defense officials threw them at U. S. Conciliation Service Director John R. Steelman. At week's end Knudsenhillman, perspiring and triumphant, announced that the dispute was ended, workers would go back to work, management would grant "union security." But, warned Knudsenhillman, setting forth a policy on labor in defense industries: "It [the settlement] is not to be considered ... a device to promote...
Within the office of OPM would be at least three divisions-Production, headed by Glassman John David Biggers; Purchases, bossed by Sears, Roebuck's Donald Marr Nelson; Priorities, bossed by Steelman Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. The President paused, blew out a cloud of cigaret smoke. The questions popped...
...Deal. Last week, as a gesture toward the wishes of his steelmaking friends, he appointed a five-man steel priorities board-the first step toward rationing in steel. But as though he wished also to placate the New Dealers, he named as its chairman no tough-minded steelman, but a college president-Dartmouth's Ernest Martin Hopkins...
...Canterbury's 25th birthday dinner in Manhattan last week went rich and famous men: retired Steelman James A. Farrell and Railroader Henry Havemeyer, trustees of the school; 100-odd old boys, among them Philip Burnham, editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. Too busy to attend was old Canterburian Robert Sweeney of the American Eagle Squadron, training as air fighters in England. In jail in Italy was George Ehret, '29, accused of fooling around with Italian currency (TIME, Nov. 25). Classmates were not surprised, recalled that George once catapulted a butterball to the dining-room ceiling under...
...speakers belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column. In a round table that touched on plant capacity, Steelman Hook and Oilman Farish both said their industries had enough...