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...Administration's manpower plans were so muddled that no man of draft age could be certain of his status; none could know when or whether he would be working for the Army or Paul V. McNutt...
With smooth-running efficiency Selective Service machinery had moved the first 5,000,000 men into uniform. But fortnight ago, SSS hit one of the worst snarls in military conscription since the U.S. entered World War II: 1) Manpower Czar Paul McNutt switched the yardstick for deferment from dependency to essentiality; 2) local draft boards, tussling with changing classifications and categories, were unable to keep pace with the demand for Army & Navy manpower...
More than a mere economy stroke, the reduction amounted to a rebuke to War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt who had warned that rejection of his request for an added $2,540,000 for the U. S. Employment Service might hamstring the whole manpower program...
Industry Wonders. At the last minute, Franklin Roosevelt decided against entrusting the new policy to the War Labor Board or Fanny Perkins' Department of Labor, handed the odious job of enforcement to War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt. Unprepared for the backbreaking job, Paul McNutt was by no means ready with all the answers. Swiftly he moved to make the new rule apply to 32 critical labor-shortage areas, later included 102 others...
What were consumer and service industries to do if they could not pay the additional overtime and make a profit under price ceilings? They were either to get along with a smaller staff working longer hours or-although the Government did not bluntly say so-fold up. Paul McNutt indicated that necessary exemptions would be made...