Word: rosenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked of a need for 300,000 new war workers. But while they busily tried to shoo more men into factories, the Army upped its January and February draft quotas one-third. In New York, where war plants were short 73,000 workers, WMC's pert, tough Anna Rosenberg sent draft boards the names of 1,200 men who had been deferred as shipyard workers and had since left their war jobs...
...prospects included: trim, smart Anna Rosenberg, labor relations expert for WMC, who would replace Frances Perkins' unfashionable hats with modish millinery from Manhattan Hatter Sally Victor; the A.F. of L. Teamsters' droop-jowled old Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin; War Manpower's Paul McNutt; ex-Pennsylvania Congressman James McGranery. And there was always able, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant, head of the International Labor Office since 1939 and now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Shorthand to Songs. The career of Billy Rose, who began life as William Samuel Rosenberg, has always been eventful. Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the son of a man "who, when people were doing passementerie, he handled fringe," Billy made the high-school track team by learning to jump the gun without detection, became a shorthand whiz and stenographer for Barney Baruch ("Baruch is still the only idol in my book"). But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley. There, writing the lyrics for such song hits as Barney Google, Million Dollar Baby, Rainbow Round...
...Cabinet session, she was asked by newsmen if she had resigned. Said Mme. Perkins: "You don't do that at a Cabinet meeting. It's like brushing your teeth; you do it in private." For her place the guessers offered WMC's able, hustling Anna Rosenberg, or the Teamsters Union's rosy-jowled President Dan Tobin...
...Manhattan dealers who later handled Hartley's work: Hudson D. Walker Galleries, Paul Rosenberg & Co. Hartley paintings now sell as high...