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...Manpower Commissioner, the President chose Manpower Commissioner (since April) Paul Vories McNutt. For Food Administrator he chose Claude R. Wickard, who, as Secretary of Agriculture, has been something of a food administrator all along. But to both men he gave important new powers-perhaps enough authority really to do the job this time...
...days ago when Paul V. McNutt received total manpower authority and voluntary enlistments were closed by Presidential order colleges were left out of the immediate plans. This unprecedented step toward war time efficiency settled some of Washington's mot pressing problems, but the plan is not yet complete. College that have been limping along because of deferments, reserve corps, and lenient draft bills, find themselves suddenly hamstrung by the disappearance of the former official policy and the lack of a new one to take its place. With all men from 18 to 38 and from...
...most startling plan yet conceived for shaking up the manpower administration. It called for a Cabinet switch such as Franklin Roosevelt has never made before: Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes to become Secretary of Labor in full charge of manpower and Selective Service, Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt to move into Ickes' old job in Interior, Labor Secretary Fanny Perkins to be shunted aside as Director of the Federal Security Administration...
There were other new blueprints drawn up: the President could take his choice. Many an uneasy eye watched the White House for hints and signs of what was coming. At a press conference, a newsman asked Paul McNutt if he expected to stay manpower director; he answered frankly, "I don't know." Fanny Perkins had not even heard of the proposed shakeup until newsmen told her. A spokesman for Harold Ickes insisted that his boss was perfectly satisfied in Interior...
...hand are many samples of Goldberg's recent serious side: political cartoons he has drawn for the New York Sun since 1938. But though some are effective, Goldberg fans spent the most time with such famed Goldbergiana as the Boob McNutt series, Lala Palooza, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who demonstrates his Simple Bookmark, operated by the lifting of reading glasses, which releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb...