Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Goodman repressings: This time "You Know" by the Trio. First good clip tempo with "Flash" Krupa showing the folks back home he can play. Second side much better with ideas, swing, and Today Wilson piano galore . . . Freddy Slack claims that he'd arranged "Rhumboogie" and that the Bradley band was playing it long before the Andrews Sisters did it. At any rate their recording of it is a good one . . . "I've Got Rhythm" by Horace Henderson is marked "Special Version"--we like the original better. "Shuffin' Joe" on the back...
Actually, the War Industries Board had no specific legislative authority to fix prices. The vagueness of its powers, in fact, broke the health of its first chairman (Cleveland Lathe Maker Frank Scott) and caused its second (Railroader Daniel Willard) to resign. Not until Woodrow Wilson put Bernard Mannes Baruch in charge and armed him with personal backing did the Board really function effectively. That was in March 1918-eleven months after the U. S. entered...
...powerful man in the U. S. Chief means of control was a priorities system, by which it could expedite or delay all shipments of war goods. (Only 25 industries, with total capital of $733,000,000, were classed as non-war.) Meanwhile the price-fixing committee, answerable directly to Wilson, set price limits at the source, on all basic materials. Before the Armistice it was extending its control over retail prices...
...railroad cars. Yet rarely were the teeth even bared. Working through war service committees in each industry, the Board made a fetish of putting its decisions in the forms of requests, let patriots carry them out voluntarily. Boasted Baruch: "Not one [industry] had to be coerced." Said Wilson: "The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people." But a different tribute to the Board came from Hindenburg: ". . . A ruthless autocracy was at work. They understood...
...senior singles class, P. D. Wilson Jr. '43 won with Julian Simmons '42 trailing him over the line. In junior singles E. S. Gilchrist '41 led C. A. Herter Jr. '42 to the wave of the finish flag, as well as winning the 155-lb. singles from Franklyn King Jr. '41. Novice singles was won by Landis Gorges '1GSD, B. P. Anderson '41 2nd. Compromise class by H. R. Shepley Jr. '41, W. O. Apthorp '43 second; and wherry class by E. R. Bason...