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...been there once before for two months as one of General Hugh Johnson's assistants on NRA. He hated Washington, hated its confusion, its backbiting, its hordes of jet-propelled reformers. But he dutifully gave up his G.E. job and went back, still hating it, took his punishment and his $8,000-a-year Government salary, and did his damndest to break the nation's production jam. He was under the authority of Donald Nelson, a man he came to dislike cordially, and with whom he violently disagreed, particularly about Nelson's plan for early reconversion...
...year. His reason: "The guys who were teaching me were even dumber than I was." He soon switched to a top post at Wilson Welder & Metals Co., Inc., where he pioneered in the infant electric welding system. In early New Deal days, Bransome headed the rubber division of NRA. Says he: "I worked under old 'Ironpants' Johnson. I didn't know one thing about rubber and told NRA that, but they said: 'Then you're just the man we want...
...financial story got him shipped back to New York to write a column on economic trends. Two years later, he went to Washington to head the W.S.J. bureau, and quickly became a topflight capital correspondent. When reporters once asked F.D.R. to explain a complicated Supreme Court decision on the NRA, he told them to read Kilgore's story in the W.S.J...
...Friend, Good Shot." During these years everything seems to have struck his attention, as if he were delighting in the many facets of policy and power suddenly available to him. He teased Jim Farley about an NRA stamp showing a stringy girl with big feet ("If recovery is dependent on women like that I am agin recovery"), exchanged notes with Virginia's Carter Glass on U.S. fiscal policy, rather fatuously wrote (in 1933) to U.S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Rome that he was "deeply impressed" by Mussolini's intention "to prevent general European trouble," and, with a cheerful...
...manpower trade, she learned her ABCs and minded her Ps & Qs in the early alphabetical New Deal days of NRA, WPA and the Social Security Board. At one point she was so busy that she was known as "Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running...