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...before Franklin Roosevelt gave new and sweeping powers to War Manpower Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt (TIME, Dec. 14) he went over the final draft of the order with a group which included McNutt, War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox, and WPBoss Donald Nelson. When the President came to the section stopping all enlistments in the armed forces, Secretary Knox is said to have begged...
...McNutt replied: "Frank, when the President signs that order, I won't give you three minutes...
...first act on receiving his new power Paul McNutt conferred with the joint Chiefs of Staff to determine the basic military needs for 1943. As boss of all manpower, Paul McNutt well knew that military needs come first. But with an eye on the manpower pool for war production, he also needed justification from the Army and Navy of their needs...
Faced with such a 1943 squeeze, Paul McNutt will have to do some fancy juggling, make some tough decisions. Two facts affecting all the people emerged: dependency will soon be out as the sole reason for military deferment, many more women will have to go to work in war industry-perhaps enough to boost the total from the present...
Last week Paul McNutt took his most drastic step to date in ordering some 600,000 workers in 34 categories in the Detroit area "frozen" in their jobs. The order does not force any person to stay at his present job, does make him provide good & ample reasons for wanting to change. In the works were similar freezings of 110,000 merchant seamen, 1,500,000 West Coast aircraft workers, and thousands of Southwestern railroad track workers. But these are only samples of what must still come...