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...McNutt announcement blocking labor's right to change jobs seemed a little too tough and too sudden to other Washington officials. By week's end there were some hasty assurances that it would not happen yet, that the announcement was premature. It would happen though, observers were certain, if the labor shortage became acute...
...Probably WLB's Davis, OPA's Henderson, Labor Department's Perkins, Manpower Commission's McNutt...
...McNutt's Manpower Administration, newcomer to the War Cabinet, is potentially the biggest bureau of all. When things get bad enough, it will in effect give every citizen a number and tell him where to work...
...President, the U.S. Office of Education and Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission were deeply concerned last week because a quarter of a million men, physically fit, had been rejected for illiteracy, lack of education, low mentality. Draft boards had turned up 177,000 more who did not know whether a boat would float in water, but who were not physically fit, either. Largest group of ignoramuses were neither aliens nor Negroes, but native whites...
...Roosevelt, Education's Dr. John W. Studebaker and Paul McNutt put under study a scheme to give "the functionally illiterate" basic training in reading, writing and arithmetic. Most offensive to a nation proud of its educational standards were the States of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. More than 30% of their populations, aged 25 and older, have had fourth-grade schooling or less...