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...over two of the farmer's greatest needs for increased production Claude Wickard's power still must be wangled through and around other Washington agencies. For farm labor he must go to Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt. For farm machinery he must go to WPBoss Donald Nelson...
...result was a politico-scientific rumpus which brought to a head the issue: should WPB's research problems be assigned mainly to big, well-heeled research plants or to small, specialized laboratories? For a solution, much depended on the character of the man appointed to head OPRD. WPBoss Nelson has neatly avoided committing himself by picking his choice. Rhode Island-born Harvey Davis is neither the head of a big business laboratory nor a Maverick crusader for the scientific little...
...Marshall had spent almost a whole day giving testimony on the bill to draft 18-and 19-year-olds; how Admiral Ernest J. King had cooled his heels for 40 minutes in an empty committee room while a Senate committee dawdled at lunch. A Washington gag had it that WPBoss Donald Nelson had already testified before every committee (there are 80) except those on Indian Affairs and the Disposition of Executive Papers...
...magic of obtaining more materials than exist by the simple device of inventing higher priority ratings has about lost its effectiveness as a stage illusion, even in Washington. AA-2x, it appeared, was only a stopgap measure until WPBoss Donald Nelson's new plan-it man Ferdinand Eberstadt (TIME. Sept. 28) got the new, more realistic allocations system under...
...appointment to be rubber dictator was due to the fact that WPBoss Donald Nelson, a U.P. director and longtime friend, submitted Bill's name to the President. Jeffers was at his Omaha desk when the President telephoned, saying he had a job for Bill Jeffers; Bill accepted then & there, went to Washington next...