Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most startling plan yet conceived for shaking up the manpower administration. It called for a Cabinet switch such as Franklin Roosevelt has never made before: Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes to become Secretary of Labor in full charge of manpower and Selective Service, Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt to move into Ickes' old job in Interior, Labor Secretary Fanny Perkins to be shunted aside as Director of the Federal Security Administration...
There were other new blueprints drawn up: the President could take his choice. Many an uneasy eye watched the White House for hints and signs of what was coming. At a press conference, a newsman asked Paul McNutt if he expected to stay manpower director; he answered frankly, "I don't know." Fanny Perkins had not even heard of the proposed shakeup until newsmen told her. A spokesman for Harold Ickes insisted that his boss was perfectly satisfied in Interior...
...hand are many samples of Goldberg's recent serious side: political cartoons he has drawn for the New York Sun since 1938. But though some are effective, Goldberg fans spent the most time with such famed Goldbergiana as the Boob McNutt series, Lala Palooza, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who demonstrates his Simple Bookmark, operated by the lifting of reading glasses, which releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt, apparently postponing plans for a cabinet shakeup, has tentatively decided to attack the manpowere problem by retaining Paul V. McNutt as War Manpower Chief and granting him wider powers over the nation's human resources, well-informed officials said tonight...
...whole local refused to work as long as a single Negro was below ground. It was at that point that Mr. Robinson was called from Boston, arrived in Butte for a Sunday meeting held in the Fox Theater. Solemnly 1,700 miners listened to telegrams from Phil Murray, Paul McNutt, General Brehon Somervell. Solemnly they voted to stick by their guns...