Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody paid much attention to a report four weeks ago by the House Tolan Committee urging a single high economic commander with full power to coordinate supply (Donald Nelson's job), manpower (Paul McNutt) and economic stabilization (James F. Byrnes). Nor did bills to set up the command, quietly dropped into Senate and House hoppers, set Capitol Hill or the Administration on fire...
Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, Paul V. McNutt, expressed his approval of the program in a letter to President Conant. "I wish to express the approval of the War Manpower Commission of this project. I am gratified that the University is prepared to render this valuable service to war industry. The need for training in business and industrial management to serve the expanding was effort in critical...
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...
...McNutt's Black Hallowe'en. Next day the New York Times headlined: MANPOWER MOVES BY MCNUTT ARE HIT FROM THREE SIDES. What made this really newsworthy was that one of the main groups crunching Mr. McNutt was the Manpower Commission's own main policy-making body, a committee of labor and industry spokesmen. The committee was now in revolt against McNutt's pressure for a compulsory service law. Boss McNutt had already said that he deemed this group to be merely "advisory...
Same day Messrs. Green and Murray, up before the Senate Labor committee, wheeled into range of Mr. McNutt and laid down a barrage calculated to destroy every living thing for miles around. Murray shot the heaviest load, dismissing most of McNutt's proposals as "sheer nonsense," and saying flatly...