Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...emissary from the White House slipped quietly into Charles E. Wilson's Manhattan office last week to press an old question. Would Charlie Wilson give up his job as president of General Electric* to take charge of U.S. mobilization in Washington? Wilson, eyeing his visitor through his thick lenses, reconsidered the "No" which had been his answer since Korea. He might accept, said he, if he 1) got full powers to run mobilization his way, and 2) reported directly to the President and not through a middleman. Next day Harry Truman was on the phone: "That," the President told...
...though they would make Symington's job less important. But rumor flitted briefly through the capital that both Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and National Production Authority Boss William Henry Harrison were apprehensive. Harry Truman's directive put an end to any argument: Wilson would be the unfettered general manager of U.S. preparedness, controlling production, prices, wages, procurement, manpower and whatever else might be necessary. He would be armed with the broadest set of powers ever granted to any citizen except a wartime President...
Twice Shy. Charlie Wilson, 64, a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered, no-nonsense kind of businessman, had come through a boyhood in Manhattan's slums, started at the bottom of General Electric's ladder as an office boy and made his way to its $275,000-a-year top. Thanks to two famous Washington scraps of World War II, he knew a governmental hot potato before he caught...
...Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson is inevitably confused with General Motors' President Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson. G.M.'s Wilson likes to refer to himself as "Engine Charlie," and to G.E.'s Wilson as "Electric Charlie...
Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason...