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...Other well-known women doctors: Dr. Gladys Dick of Chicago who discovered the scarlet fever germ, famed Princeton Pediatrician Sara Josephine Baker, founder of New York City's Bureau of Child Hygiene, Columbia University Surgeon Barbara Bartlett Stimson, Philadelphia Public Health Expert Martha Tracy, Head of the American Women's Hospitals Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Chicago's Surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen (TIME...
...which he had hung a cumbersome jawbreaker-Office for Production Management for Defense. (Later he referred to it as the "Big Four.") Its director: Big Bill Knudsen. Other members: Laborman Sidney Hillman (with the title of associate director), Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Secretary of War Henry Stimson...
...pooh-bah, a Tsar or an Akhund of Swat in charge of national defense. No one man knows enough for the job. Better, said he, to have on the board management (Knudsen), labor (Hillman) and the user-buyers of national defense products (Navy's Knox, Army's Stimson). Under their four-man chairmanship (if it works that way) will be planned the three big Ps of industrial defense: 1) Production, 2) Purchasing, 3) Priorities. The National Defense Advisory Commission will go on planning, advising...
...Great Expectations." Secretary Stimson first quoted an official report (by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) that labor troubles had caused only 1% of the construction delays. Next day, after the War Department had had a night to ponder his aspersions on the Army, he issued a '"transcript" which included some new observations. Chief change: less blame on military bumblers, more on labor...
...record spoke for itself. Mr. Stimson's explanation: that the Army, having in the first place overestimated its ability to absorb recruits, could be accused of nothing more than undue optimism. Many of those estimates were cooked up during debate on the conscription bill; many more during the Presidential campaign, when Wendell Willkie was huffing & puffing at unmade Army housing. Said Henry Stimson, with twinkling reassurance: "Estimates beforehand are only estimates. Anybody who has built a house knows that. I think that on the whole the defense work is coming along as well as could be expected...