Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the Army and such Senators as John Bankhead, Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was in the middle last week. Paul McNutt must find the men the Army asks for-but he can go to the President if he considers the Army's demands too high. It appeared that McNutt, who would like to compromise on a figure of 9,000,000 men, might do just that...
...Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt issued a directive giving Claude Wickard all responsibility for recruiting and placing farm labor...
...same could scarcely be said about the shortage of men. 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...
Faced with such a 1943 squeeze, Paul McNutt will have to do some fancy juggling, make some tough decisions. Two facts affecting all the people emerged: dependency will soon be out as the sole reason for military deferment, many more women will have to go to work in war industry-perhaps enough to boost the total from the present...
Last week Paul McNutt took his most drastic step to date in ordering some 600,000 workers in 34 categories in the Detroit area "frozen" in their jobs. The order does not force any person to stay at his present job, does make him provide good & ample reasons for wanting to change. In the works were similar freezings of 110,000 merchant seamen, 1,500,000 West Coast aircraft workers, and thousands of Southwestern railroad track workers. But these are only samples of what must still come...