Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Perkins, stout defender of the 40-hour week, cautiously suggested that a 48-hour week might be necessary. But much more far-reaching was a plan sent to the White House by silver-thatched Paul McNutt...
...details were not revealed but it was described as a plan for the complete mobilization, of man power: Mr. McNutt recommended a central authority which would allocate workers to the spots where they were most needed. The job of this central authority would be to iron out the present confused man power-procurement program, now handled by six different agencies-Army & Navy, Selective Service, Civil Service Commission, Office of Civilian Defense, Employment Service. The plan still awaited the President's scrutiny, and he was expected to issue an executive order to implement...
Even if all had been well about defense, finances and air-raid shelters, President Quezon would still have felt pain about Commissioner Sayre. Artful Manuel Quezon got whatever he wanted from Commissioner Frank Murphy, played poker with Paul McNutt, but cannot get around superconscientious Francis Sayre...
...because Philadelphia has $1,000,000,000 in defense projects, the President declared that he intended to do something about it. He had already instructed Federal Security Administrator Paul McNutt to go get a whiff of Philadelphia, see whether the Government could "cooperate with the local authorities to insure that national as well as local interests will be insured and safeguarded...
Corporal Winthrop Rockefeller returned to Manhattan from maneuvers in North Carolina with a full-blown mustache, advice on how to stay rich in the Army. "The best investment I ever made," he confided, "was not learning how to play craps or poker." ∙ ∙ Paul V. McNutt's pretty daughter, Louise, 20, offered a plan for gas conservation: "Park more and drive less." ∙ ∙ Enormously popular with the British as radio entertainers, oldtime U.S. Film Stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels will come home next week "to tell the people of America what is needed...