Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czar of Czars Byrnes, Production's Nelson, Manpower's McNutt, Transportations Eastman, Rubber's Jeffers, Prices' Brown, Oil's Ickes, Informations's Davis, Censorship's Price...
...with improvement of workers' living conditions and environments. Labor must live as well as work. While some absenteeism is inexcusable, this small proportion is negligible and no rational cause for vitriolic attacks on workers. Neither threatening workers with army service nor mud-slinging will solve the problem. Paul V. McNutt and the labor management committee of the War Manpower Commission, together with unions and local authorities are beginning to meet it. With sensible thinking and sober action, the obstacle of absentecism can be hurdled. But with the handicap of anti-labor attitudes, the bar can never be cleared...
...Administration's manpower plans were so muddled that no man of draft age could be certain of his status; none could know when or whether he would be working for the Army or Paul V. McNutt...
With smooth-running efficiency Selective Service machinery had moved the first 5,000,000 men into uniform. But fortnight ago, SSS hit one of the worst snarls in military conscription since the U.S. entered World War II: 1) Manpower Czar Paul McNutt switched the yardstick for deferment from dependency to essentiality; 2) local draft boards, tussling with changing classifications and categories, were unable to keep pace with the demand for Army & Navy manpower...
...week, and politics lent a hand to stir the confusion. The House Military Affairs Committee launched a bill forbidding induction of heads of families until all single men, all childless married men in each respective state had been called. A rider forbade induction by occupational groups, played hob with McNutt's plan to force nonessential workers into war industries...