Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manpower Commissioner, the President chose Manpower Commissioner (since April) Paul Vories McNutt. For Food Administrator he chose Claude R. Wickard, who, as Secretary of Agriculture, has been something of a food administrator all along. But to both men he gave important new powers-perhaps enough authority really to do the job this time...
...well Paul McNutt and Claude Wickard would do with their new powers (see below), only time would tell. To some Administration critics, it seemed ironic that the men under whom manpower and food situations had steadily worsened, should now emerge as the czars. But the new setup, if not perfect, was far tighter and better than anything tried before in World War II. Much of the divided authority which had kept Paul McNutt and Claude Wickard busy debating instead of working was now clearly and finally determined. How well they would do the job was now, for the first time...
...pleased Paul McNutt, his new authority as Manpower Commissioner looked great & good. In the past he had been expected, with nothing but advisory powers, to do as tough an administrative job as the war has yet produced. Now Franklin Roosevelt, by executive order, had given him something to work with...
...Under his control goes the entire Selective Service System. For the first time, McNutt can now tell the 6,400 local U.S. draft boards which men they can have and which they must leave in jobs...
...days ago when Paul V. McNutt received total manpower authority and voluntary enlistments were closed by Presidential order colleges were left out of the immediate plans. This unprecedented step toward war time efficiency settled some of Washington's mot pressing problems, but the plan is not yet complete. College that have been limping along because of deferments, reserve corps, and lenient draft bills, find themselves suddenly hamstrung by the disappearance of the former official policy and the lack of a new one to take its place. With all men from 18 to 38 and from...