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...WITHEROW 1942 President, N.A.M. New York City...
This, unfortunately, was precisely the problem the old guard of the N.A.M. failed even to face. The tone was set when retiring President William P. Witherow delivered a confusing tirade against the already confused ideas of Henry J. Wallace. Cried Mr. Witherow: "I am not righting for a quart of milk for every Hottentot, or for a TVA on the Danube. ... I am not making tanks or guns to help a people's revolution ... I am making armament to help our boys save America...
Trouble with Bill Witherow's Fourth of July rhetoric was that in concentrating on the irrelevancies of Mr. Wallace, he was making himself doubly irrelevant. Equally irrelevant was many another droning oration which failed to advance the ball beyond the bitter business-Government-labor disputes of the mid '30s. Not so Henry Kaiser. Said...
...more & more real by the moment, an unprecedented delegation paid a call on the President. "Historic" the President called it, for figuratively arm-in-arm came the famed heads of A.F. of L. and C.I.O. together with President Eric Johnston of the Chamber of Commerce and President William P. Witherow of the National Association of Manufacturers. They said they wanted to do everything possible to help win the war. The President was delighted. Same day, the two head men of labor went back to the White House-this time, significantly, unaccompanied by businessmen. It looked as if that united front...
...Labor Board's comment: Mr. Witherow and other industry representatives had pledged themselves to "accept the President's direction for peaceful settlement of disputes...