Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...resigned from G.E. "in 40 seconds" to be one of Donald Nelson's vice chairmen of the War Production Board. ("Hell's loose, and I've got to do something about it," said Wilson.) Right off, he began battling with Manhattan Investment Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, one of Nelson's ablest assistants, over methods of getting the most out of U.S. corporations. Their differences of approach eventually boiled down to the question of which man would go and which would stay. Nelson ruled for Wilson and fired Eberstadt, although Wilson later came to praise (and use) Eberstadt...
...years later, Charlie Wilson got fed up with Nelson's eagerness to start reconverting while the war was far from ended. One day Nelson blandly called the WPB staff together for a "harmony" meeting, asked Wilson to say "a few words." Said Wilson: "I have already resigned." In a letter to President Roosevelt he accused Nelson's friends of planting newspaper stories calculated to make his life unbearable. "I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts," Wilson wrote. F.D.R. sent him home with a "Dear Charlie" letter and praise for "outstanding service...
...persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
...Smith (H) pinned Rumpler with a double arm lock and body press at 2:17; 137--Adams (H) pinned McLoon with a double arm lock and body press at 1:05; 147--Myerson (B.U.) decisioned Iben, 11-2; 157--Joslin (B.U.) pinned Anderson with a half nelson and body press at 3:44; 167--Hubbard (H) and Gorman drew, 7-7; 177--Kacavas (B.U.) pinned Dunbaugh with a half nelson and body press at 4:54; unlimited--Heidtmann (H) decisioned Evans...
...League team: g, Ben North of Brown; rfb, Alex Athanassiades of Yale; lfb, jackson Hall of Dartmouth; rhb, Art Pappas of Springfield; chb, Paul Deitsche of Yale; lhb, Don Spreen of Springfield; ol, Court Nelson of Trinity; il, Ash Eames of Amherst; Cf, Burnett; ir, Weiss; or, Goldstein...