Word: eberstadt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee was headed by New York Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, who helped draft the unification plan, and included, among consultants, Admirals Nimitz and King and Generals Eisenhower and Spaatz...
...Vanishing Man. The friendly conference, in Baruch's Manhattan office, lasted three hours. On one side were Wallace and his adviser, alert Philip Hauser of the Census Bureau. On the other: Baruch and his associates, ex-Editorialist Herbert Bayard Swope, Banker John Hancock, Wall Streeter Ferd Eberstadt. Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad. Baruch showed him, point by point, where he was wrong. The upshot of the conference: Hauser and Swope would draft a retraction for Wallace to sign...
...Ferdinand Eberstadt, Herbert Bayard Swope, John Hancock, Fred Searles, Jr., Baruch...
...would be no Chief of Staff of all the armed forces (who, it had been feared, might become "a man on horseback"); the Joint Chiefs would remain the top military directors; there would be a Council of Common Defense and a National Security Resources Board, as proposed in Ferdinand Eberstadt's Navy plan...
...contradictions and compromises. To please the Army, it started with the basic Army plan (TIME, Nov. 26). In deference to the President's suggestion, it added three more secretaries, one for each service. To soften the blow for the Navy, it piled on top of everything else the Eberstadt blueprint for a top coordinating council (TIME...