Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps's two previous examinations (in August and November) about 60% failed. Most flunked on mathematics, especially trigonometry: many could have passed if they had taken the trouble to bone up beforehand. Federal Security Administrator Paul McNutt last week had arranged to establish free cram schools for prospective cadets. And the Army offered all comers a pamphlet telling what texts to read, how to get in the Air Corps without going to college first...
...Guild's professional and admiring eye: Glenwood J. Sherrard, president-manager of Boston's Parker House; William Rhinelander Stewart, Manhattan socialite; Lucius Beebe, lush cafe columnist; Dr. Gordon Green, New York physician; Frank L. Andrews, president of the Hotel New Yorker; platinum-haired, oriflammable Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator. McNutt, smiling modestly, also denied that he gave dressing any real thought, declared: "One is rather embarrassed by all this, and I think the less said the better...
Having gained the backing of Mrs. Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, all of whom have done much to help the group, they submitted a petition to the government asking "for cooperation among rural communities, college men, and city youth." Paul V. McNutt, Commissioner of the Federal Securities Board, appointed a committee to consider the petition, one of whose members was Dean James M. Landis of the Law School. The plan was approved...
...production workers will be needed for a new shell-loading plant near Cleveland; at Cincinnati, Wright Aeronautical's new engine plant will shortly be looking for anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 skilled machinists, other specialty metal tradesmen. This week Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt reported that employers are waiving usual labor requirements, taking what they can get. He noted that one engineering company had hired an 89-year-old man from a State employment agency, that even the supply of migratory farm labor is shorter than usual...
...Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate any way it likes, denounced Willkie as a turncoat Democrat who has become "the Nation...