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...McNutt Approves...
...time, the program was announced in November, Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, expressed his approval of the scheme in a letter to President Conant. "I wish to express the approval of the War Manpower Commission of this project. I am gratified that the University is prepared to render this valuable service to war industry. The need for training in business and industrial management to serve the expanding war effort is critical...
Between the Army and such Senators as John Bankhead, Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was in the middle last week. Paul McNutt must find the men the Army asks for-but he can go to the President if he considers the Army's demands too high. It appeared that McNutt, who would like to compromise on a figure of 9,000,000 men, might do just that...
...Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt issued a directive giving Claude Wickard all responsibility for recruiting and placing farm labor...
...same could scarcely be said about the shortage of men. Manpower problems, which received more wordage in the press than any other domestic issue, remained throughout the year a confused hubbub. Organizationally, progress was made when Paul V. McNutt was appointed supreme manpower czar by the President, taking over not only industrial mobilization but Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey's Selective Service as well. Mr. McNutt promised that sooner or later the U.S. would get a civilian selective law similar to Britain's. But whether McNutt, the politician, would prove as shrewd an organizer of men as Eberstadt...