Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest, there was Missouri's Senator Harry Truman (who might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC Boss Paul McNutt and even such outsiders as Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas and Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper...
...Manpower Boss McNutt does not consider piano tuning a war-essential industry. But in Alaska, where piano tuners are next to nonexistent, an obscure master of this peaceful craft is doing his not inconsiderable bit to help the war effort...
...July 1 the entire U.S. will go under job control advertised as the most drastic in its history. This edict came from Manpower Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt, who three weeks ago blithely assured newsmen: "We're pretty well on top of tho whole problem. . . . Oh, there are a few critical spots, but. . ." (TIME...
...citizens who asked why these sudden sweeping restrictions when war production is over the top and cutbacks already at hand, Paul McNutt had a ready explanation. Said he: the U.S. is suffering from "overoptimism [about] an early ending of the war. . . . This sentiment is positively dangerous" because workers are leaving essential industries for jobs with a peacetime future. An additional 350,000 male workers are still needed in crucial industries (foundries, rubber, ship repair, landing-craft production). McNutt's new pronouncement thus explained everything except his own previous optimism...
...they wondered again, as Paul McNutt, the central figure in manpower management, ended a vacation in French Lick, Ind. by telling reporters: ". . . We're pretty well on top of [manpower] right now. . . . There are some isolated spots giving us trouble-bearings, foundries, and shipbuilding plants." That did not sound like crisis talk...