Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconversion plan, that it was afraid of the peace. Last week in Washington, on Election Day-minus-60, the planners scrambled furiously to show that Mr. Dewey was wrong. They minted a new phrase, "VE day" (Victory in Europe), for the time when Germany quits. Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt bustled up Capitol Hill to tell a Senate committee what he will do, come V-E day. WPB's acting chairman, Julius A. Krug, was already sure of what he will...
...complimented him, collected his originals-which he gives away for the asking, never sells. Though never syndicated, his cartoons have been widely reprinted. Fellow craftsmen dedicated their cartoons to him on his 70th birthday. This year his cartoon "But Where Is the Boat Going?"-showing Congress, the President, McNutt, Hershey, Lewis, Green and Murray at sea in a "manpower" lifeboat, won the Pulitzer Prize...
Into this situation last week moved Paul McNutt's dogged War Manpower Commission with an order to all U.S. hotels in labor-shortage areas. The order: cut present service to a minimum...
...holding a narrow lead, 477½-to-472½, the bosses could wait no longer. Alabama's Bankhead withdrew his name, threw 22 votes to Truman. South Carolina switched all 18 votes to Truman. The galleries howled and screamed. Indiana's huge Boss Frank McHale withdrew Paul McNutt's name. Maine came over to Truman. "We want Wallace!" roared the galleries...
...James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young man (45), a Far Westerner and a liberal...