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!'...
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