Word: wpboss
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...last six months, U.S. production has passed Great Britain and Russia and is increasing its lead. (WPBoss Donald Nelson added that U.S. production now exceeds all the Axis nations combined...
...before Franklin Roosevelt gave new and sweeping powers to War Manpower Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt (TIME, Dec. 14) he went over the final draft of the order with a group which included McNutt, War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox, and WPBoss Donald Nelson. When the President came to the section stopping all enlistments in the armed forces, Secretary Knox is said to have begged...
...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...