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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...
...could the manpower crisis be cured now, with almost 2,000,000 less non-farm workers than when it was first discovered? Certainly no one gave any credit to Paul McNutt's much denounced War Manpower Commission. The little-noticed change actually came from the slow combination of the efforts of many men-and the progress of the war itself...
Originals of TIME covers by Baker have gone (among many others) to General Doolittle, Secretary Knox, Manpower Czar McNutt-and still another (a portrait of General De Gaulle) so impressed the Fighting French that they dropped tens of thousands of reprints on Occupied France. And hundreds of subscribers have asked, like Mrs. Spaatz, "How does...
...reason for the new call, put off as long as possible, was also clear. The nation faced a new manpower crisis (see below). Said War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt: "I must make available additional sources of military manpower or be responsible for a serious crisis in war-production industries by the withdrawal of thousands of men whose occupational deferment is absolutely essential...