Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before the Army & Navy set their draft quotas, they must confer with McNutt, who can carry his case to the President if he thinks the armed forces are raiding the civilian population too heavily. Heretofore, Army & Navy have taken men without regard to other manpower needs...
...McNutt can now decree, in any plant, city or area, that employers must hire men only through the U.S. Employment Service. He can thus stop labor pirating...
...Paul McNutt well knew that he had remained Manpower Commissioner only because Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes did not want the job. But if he resented being second choice, he did not show it. It was more likely that ambitious Paul McNutt, who has been no ball-of-fire at the job to date, welcomed any fair chance -as first, second or tenth choice-to redeem himself...
...over two of the farmer's greatest needs for increased production Claude Wickard's power still must be wangled through and around other Washington agencies. For farm labor he must go to Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt. For farm machinery he must go to WPBoss Donald Nelson...
Thus Honest Harold's star was at zenith last week; he had gained more prestige by avoiding the manpower job than Paul McNutt had by taking it. He was no longer a wallflower. A few days earlier, he had written a blistering ten-page letter to the editors of the Washington Star, nailing them to a barn door and skinning them alive for daring to criticize his oil setup. Given a chance to do the letter over last week, he would doubtless have cut it to five pages...