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...Manpower problems, which received more wordage in the press than any other domestic issue, remained throughout the year a confused hubbub. Organizationally, progress was made when Paul V. McNutt was appointed supreme manpower czar by the President, taking over not only industrial mobilization but Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey's Selective Service as well. Mr. McNutt promised that sooner or later the U.S. would get a civilian selective law similar to Britain's. But whether McNutt, the politician, would prove as shrewd an organizer of men as Eberstadt, the businessman, was proving of materials, remained to be seen...
...University reveals Navy occupation of Yard for duration. General Hershey tells College audience every able man must aid war effort...
Wednesday's statement from General Hershey's office gave notice of the induction of teen-age draftees within 40 to 60 days. University officials noted that all timing would be dependent on the program expected to result from the current consultations of the Day Committee with military officials in Washington...
...E.R.C. either will be called before midyears or left in college after that. I feel quite sure that E.R.C. men will finish their midyears, but I certainly can't guarantee it. Nor can I guarantee that men not in the E.R.C. will be taken before midyears; but General Hershey's bulletin does make that possible, for some men at least. Elliott Perkins...
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...