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...United Press announced a week ago Tuesday that McNutt's committee was studying the plan which would provide for scientific and some liberal arts training in the colleges. It was stated at the time that the plan would be made public after the universities had time to review it, and it was suggested that the Army and Navy would supervise, food, and clothe approximately 250,000 students
...touched Radcliffe, although indirectly. McNutt's appointment makes a draft of women easily within the realm of possibility. But more immediate effects are already seen. Early next year a WAVE post-grad school is expected to squeeze onto the Radcliffe grounds, giving supply training to follow indoctrination at Smith. Extra-curricularly the 'Cliffe has of course its full quota of Committees and Boards, and such courses as engineering may soon be added to the curriculum, which contains only Harvard courses and omits just a few. Radcliffe would as soon think of a home economics course as Harvard would...
...Paul McNutt well knew that he had remained Manpower Commissioner only because Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes did not want the job. But if he resented being second choice, he did not show it. It was more likely that ambitious Paul McNutt, who has been no ball-of-fire at the job to date, welcomed any fair chance -as first, second or tenth choice-to redeem himself...
...over two of the farmer's greatest needs for increased production Claude Wickard's power still must be wangled through and around other Washington agencies. For farm labor he must go to Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt. For farm machinery he must go to WPBoss Donald Nelson...
Thus Honest Harold's star was at zenith last week; he had gained more prestige by avoiding the manpower job than Paul McNutt had by taking it. He was no longer a wallflower. A few days earlier, he had written a blistering ten-page letter to the editors of the Washington Star, nailing them to a barn door and skinning them alive for daring to criticize his oil setup. Given a chance to do the letter over last week, he would doubtless have cut it to five pages...