Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least once before, Franklin Roosevelt has been able to finesse the question; in July 1942, he turned FEPC over to WMCzar Paul McNutt, who conveniently forgot to take any action. But Mike Ross, one of the original bright boys of the early New Deal, has no intention of treading water. A Hotchkiss & Yale graduate, onetime miner, newsman and author (Death of a Yale Man), Mike Ross believes in FEPC's principles. Franklin Roosevelt cannot outwait this...
When the "father draft" bill became law, the Army won a point of prestige, Manpowerman Paul McNutt lost political face, and U.S. fathers broke even...
...Winner. Major General Lewis B. Hershey, who formerly reported (on paper) to WMC's McNutt, became full boss of Selective Service. He had never favored the idea of a sharp-toothed father draft bill. Last week General Hershey told a manufacturers' convention in Manhattan that the Army would probably need and would have to take another 1,000,000 fathers by July 1944. Next day he wired all local boards to go easy on family...
...Loser. Grey, glossy Paul McNutt had stubbornly fought the bill because it would "sabotage" his so-called overall manpower program. The President's signature was a staggering blow to the man who gave up his almost-sure nomination as the 1940 Vice-Presidential candidate in favor of Mr. Roosevelt's man Wallace...
...Washington Times-Herald reported that sympathetic friends were "bleeding for McNutt." But Paul McNutt kept silence; did not resign...