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...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...
...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...
...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...