Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearance: Excellent. In looks, Bricker is nearly as good a candidate as Indiana's Paul McNutt, without the bril-liantined platinum handsomeness that annoys plainer men. He looks as solid as his reassuring Ohio colleague Robert Taft, without Taft's embarrassing stiffness. He dresses as well as New York's Tom Dewey, without seeming the least dapper...
WASHINGTON--War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was the only pitcher who lasted out the game today as the Washington Senators exploded a six-run sixth inning to score a 7-5 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics to open the major league season...
...absence of President Roosevelt, who is on another war inspection tour, McNutt was called upon to toss out the traditional first ball that sent the season...
...next at bat. Columnist Damon Runyon quoted odds of 9-to-5 that the major leagues would not be able to play out their 1943 schedules. Already some 225 of last year's 400 major leaguers had gone into the services. Nobody, not even Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, knew how soon local draft boards would call the elderly and ailing ballplayers still left...
...golfers have stayed away from the links in large numbers since gas rationing began. Last week they were urged to resume play by no less an authority than Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt. Surprised to learn that many golfers feared golfing would be considered unpatriotic, Duffer McNutt (hundred-and-eighties) told Ed. Dudley, president of the Professional Golfers' Association: "If country clubs can provide horse-drawn vehicles to get their players to the courses or if the people can reach them by public conveyances, there is no reason why they should not play in their spare time." At least...