Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul V. McNutt, platinum-haired War Manpower Commissioner, recommended "extermination of the Japanese-in toto" The onetime U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines explained: "I know the Japanese people...
Next day War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt announced (speaking for Byrnes) that he had been authorized to exempt restaurants from the curfew, provided they sold no liquor, offered no entertainment after midnight...
...soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped up by West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley M. Kilgore, whose constituency is heavily weighted with labor votes, mostly United Mine Workers. The Kilgore measure would hand the manpower problem over to Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission (which has fumbled it from the beginning). It would give neither WMC nor anyone else the authority needed in the crisis. Labor and management have come out for the Kilgore bill...
William Yandell Elliott, vice-Chairman of the War Production Board in charge of civilian requirements, and professor of Government, back from a month's trip through France and England with Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission and other high-ranking American officials, yesterday stated that, "although German war prisoners are not sure of a Nazi victory, neither are they afraid of an immediate Allied triumph. A stalemate and armistice is probably nearer to their feelings on the future of Europe...
...prospects included: trim, smart Anna Rosenberg, labor relations expert for WMC, who would replace Frances Perkins' unfashionable hats with modish millinery from Manhattan Hatter Sally Victor; the A.F. of L. Teamsters' droop-jowled old Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin; War Manpower's Paul McNutt; ex-Pennsylvania Congressman James McGranery. And there was always able, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant, head of the International Labor Office since 1939 and now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...