Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Franklin Roosevelt gave new and sweeping powers to War Manpower Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt (TIME, Dec. 14) he went over the final draft of the order with a group which included McNutt, War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox, and WPBoss Donald Nelson. When the President came to the section stopping all enlistments in the armed forces, Secretary Knox is said to have begged...
...McNutt replied: "Frank, when the President signs that order, I won't give you three minutes...
...first act on receiving his new power Paul McNutt conferred with the joint Chiefs of Staff to determine the basic military needs for 1943. As boss of all manpower, Paul McNutt well knew that military needs come first. But with an eye on the manpower pool for war production, he also needed justification from the Army and Navy of their needs...
...United Press announced a week ago Tuesday that McNutt's committee was studying the plan which would provide for scientific and some liberal arts training in the colleges. It was stated at the time that the plan would be made public after the universities had time to review it, and it was suggested that the Army and Navy would supervise, food, and clothe approximately 250,000 students
...touched Radcliffe, although indirectly. McNutt's appointment makes a draft of women easily within the realm of possibility. But more immediate effects are already seen. Early next year a WAVE post-grad school is expected to squeeze onto the Radcliffe grounds, giving supply training to follow indoctrination at Smith. Extra-curricularly the 'Cliffe has of course its full quota of Committees and Boards, and such courses as engineering may soon be added to the curriculum, which contains only Harvard courses and omits just a few. Radcliffe would as soon think of a home economics course as Harvard would...