"Now, Mrs. Roosevelt!"

Mrs. Roosevelt herself let fly some old tomatoes and dead cats at her husband's OPM (see p. 10). The occasion: a meeting of Extension Service and 4-H Club directors in Washington.

All of two months ago, said Eleanor Roosevelt indignantly, she had seen that conversion of the automobile industry would throw thousands of people out of work in Detroit. She went to Messrs. Knudsen & Hillman and urged that OPM start training autoworkers as workers on airplane parts. Said she: "Mr. Knudsen looked at me like a great big benevolent bear as if to say, 'Now, Mrs. Roosevelt, don't let's get excited!' "

When she called on Mr. Knudsen a month later, said she, he brushed her off again with the answer that something was being worked out. "I wonder," wondered the President's wife, "if Mr. Knudsen knows what hunger is--if any member of his family has ever gone hungry? The slowness of our officials in seeing ahead, in seeing the very obvious things that are developing, is responsible for the whole mess."

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