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When the "father draft" bill became law, the Army won a point of prestige, Manpowerman Paul McNutt lost political face, and U.S. fathers broke even...
...week's start Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt announced that his commission had drawn up another plan-this time for occupational deferment, which would go into effect "soon." Details were vague. He also gave a routine plug for the enactment of a National Service Act, providing for compulsory service for all citizens. Details of this were vague...
Whether or not the nation has manhandled its manpower, it is doing a smart job of mobilizing its boy-& -girl power. Last week Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt sent a directive clear-as-a-school-bell to the nation's 28,000 high schools: No boy or girl was left in doubt about his or her place in the war effort. The directive launched a High School Victory Corps, complete with uniform (a service cap) and specific military assignments. National chief of the Corps is popular Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. ace in the last war (26 planes) and head of Eastern...
...educators heard tough talk from their Government this week. Gathered in Washington for a four-day Institute on Education and the War, 600 leaders of the nation's schools and colleges were directed to train their pupils in military fundamentals from grade school to college. Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt curtly told them: "There is no excuse for any young man or woman to be in college preparing for any profession not directly useful to the war effort...
Many questions had to be resolved by Selective Service and Manpowerman McNutt before the harried local draft boards could get a common directive...