Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away on ice until after the Democrats have won the November elections is the final draft of a National Service Act that will give Paul V. McNutt's Manpower Commission power to cope with "labor emergencies" akin to the powers now held by the British Government...
Many questions had to be resolved by Selective Service and Manpowerman McNutt before the harried local draft boards could get a common directive...
...older Scouts and ex-Scouts who have outgrown dispatch and collection services, there is great demand from recruiting officers. Frank Knox wants the Sea Scouts to sign up for the Navy. Paul McNutt has asked them not to forget the Merchant Marine. Lieut. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold says that the newest Scout project of Air Scouts (15 years and older) who will receive ground and flight background training is "great news to the Army Air Corps...
...President, the U.S. Office of Education and Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission were deeply concerned last week because a quarter of a million men, physically fit, had been rejected for illiteracy, lack of education, low mentality. Draft boards had turned up 177,000 more who did not know whether a boat would float in water, but who were not physically fit, either. Largest group of ignoramuses were neither aliens nor Negroes, but native whites...
...Roosevelt, Education's Dr. John W. Studebaker and Paul McNutt put under study a scheme to give "the functionally illiterate" basic training in reading, writing and arithmetic. Most offensive to a nation proud of its educational standards were the States of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. More than 30% of their populations, aged 25 and older, have had fourth-grade schooling or less...