Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...brief struggle within the Inner Circle for control of the aircraft program, Tommy the Cork had backed Federal Lender Jones against Secretary Morgen thau, who hates The Cork's guts. Messrs, Jones & Corcoran had sought control through vast RFC loans to the air industry; Mr. Morgenthau contended there were no bottlenecks within the industry, there was no bottle. He wanted a new aviation industry, set up on a mammoth scale, and the President agreed with...
...such Communist-saturated organizations as the American Youth Congress and the Workers Alliance-in view of this it would be especially encouraging if some action could be made . . . that would indicate to the people that this Administration is alive to the fifth-column danger in America, determined to control it, and not just soggily sentimental about...
...President asked Congress to move the Immigration and Naturalization Service from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice as a measure of alien control. Said Attorney General Jackson, as the FBI added 100 agents and public opinion dumped the fifth-column problem in his lap: "Citizens may be helpful to the Government. They may aid by reporting to the FBI acts, threats, or evidences of sabotage, espionage." To a citizenry determined to act if the Government did not, he added, "The greatest help to the Government that citizens can render is to keep cool and not become frightened...
...military engine models, up production by bringing as many plants as possible into a field now limited largely to two companies (Pratt & Whitney, division of United Aircraft; Curtiss-Wright); 2) Mr. Morgenthau, Federal Lender Jesse Jones, Tommy Corcoran, et al., in the roles of industrial advisers, were finagling for control...
...experience looked good, and even Herbert Hoover, looked a little better. Mr. Hoover, in a broadcast from New York, drew three lessons from the past: 1) experts in manufacturing, industry, labor, transportation, agriculture are essential in a procurement program; 2) board, councils, committees are worthless: one man must control industrial production; 3) politicians must be kept out of the defense pie. Stressing unity of purpose, Mr. Hoover underlined economic regeneration of the U. S. as a prime defense requirement...