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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Core: Within 90 days private employers in nonessential industries are to reduce by 20% the number of men they employ; so will the State. Where necessary they may hire women as replacements. The men set free are to be eased into farm work, backbone of Minnesota's economy, by means of State-financed urban & rural farm labor recruiting offices and rehabilitation of skilled oldsters...
Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt directed employers (although he has no power to enforce his directive) not to hire any gold miner unless he was referred to them by the U.S. Employment Service. McNutt promised that the men would be given a choice between the other mining jobs available, would be given every help, including transportation if necessary. If 4,000 gold miners go into copper mining, there should be almost 16,000 tons more copper produced each month...
Manpower. Since April, when President Roosevelt made tall, tan and terrific-Paul Vories McNutt head of WMC, Americans have expected the Manpower Tsar to start ordering them around: to tell businessmen whom they could hire, snatch housewives out of their homes. They did not realize that his title was ersatz, that he has authority to make policy but none to carry it out, that in all Washington there is hardly a man willing to lift a finger to give him that power. He cannot yet give orders to any worker. The nation's 6,500 independent draft boards take...
...Between Us Girls the beatings Diana took were physical as well as spiritual. She slammed her coccyx around with such conviction in the skating scene that they had to hire a masseuse. And from a moment in which Robert Cummings is supposed to slap her face, she learned Art's most cherished trade secret: One Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked...
...operatic tromboning, but for his hot riffs as a member of Raymond Paige's "Young Americans" and several well-known U.S. dance bands. Never before (except in the case of one obscure drum & cymbal player) had the august Philharmonic unbent its classical dignity so far as to hire a former U.S. jazz artist...